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CASE,  AND  HIS  COTEMPORARIES. 


CASE, 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES; 

OR, 

THE  CANADIAN  ITINERANTS'  MEMORIAL  : 

CONSTITUTING   A 

BIOGRAPHICAL  HISTORY  OF  METHODISM  IN  CANADA 

TBOM   ITS 

INTRODUCTION  IWTO  THE  PROVINCE    TILL  THE  DEATH  OF    THE 
REV.  WILLIAM  CASE,  IN  18BS. 


JOHN  CARROLL,  D.D. 


1  Tell  ye  your  ohildren  of  it,  and  let  your  children  tell  their  children,  and  their 
children  another  generation." — Prophbt  Joel. 


VOLUME    V. 


TORONTO : 
PUBLISHED  AT  THE  METHODIST  CONFERENCE  OFFICE, 

KINO  STREET  EAST. 
1877. 


A  FINAL  WOKD  TO  THE  READER. 


My  long  cherished  desire  and  purpose  are  achieved  at  last. 
The  unparalleled  production  of  a  history  of  sixty-four  years 
course  of  operations,  and  a  portraiture  of  the  actors  in  its  ac- 
complishment combined,  is  before  the  reader.  v  ,-Jtjs  as  if  the 
"Nonconformist's  Memorial,"  and  "Baxter's  Life  and  Times," 
or  "  The  History  of  the  Puritans,"  should  be  woven  into  one. 
I  pretend  not  to  say  whether  this  is  an  excellence,  or  defect, 
but  there  it  is.  My  original  and  fondest  wish  was  to  pre- 
serve a  memorial  of  each  of  the  itinerants  who  had  labored 
in  Canada  from  1790  to  1855  ;  next,  I  adopted  the  idea  of 
presenting  the  public  life,  pre-eminently,  of  the  most  influ- 
ential among  them,  and  one  who  exercised  his  ministry  fifty 
years  ;  but  in  the  accomplishment  of  these  two  objects,  I 
accomplished  a  third,  and  more  important  one  than  either, 
the  history  of  the  Church  as  well  as  its  ministry.  If  sueh 
things  are  of  any  importance,  then  I  say  that  I  have  fur- 
nished the  great  Methodist  Church  (so  far  as  it  relates  to 
"  the  two  Canada's  "  especially)  an  account  of  its  rise  and 
progress  and  a  memorial  of  all  its  ministers,  something  which 
no  Church  in  existence  possesses  but  herself,  at  least  that  I 
know  of. 


18997 


IV  A    FINAL   WORD    TO    THE    HEADER. 

This  work  has  been  accomplished  arrfid  scores  of  disadvan- 
tages which  are  too  painful  to  dwell  upon.  It  has  been  con- 
ceived and  carried  on  without  one  breath  of  endorsation,  or 
encouragement,  from  any  Conference  or  convocation  in  the 
world.  It  is  true,  the  Book  Committee  of  our  Connexion 
so  far  countenanced  it  as  to  secure  the  copyright ;  and  the 
Rev.  Samuel  Rose,  the  Book  Steward,  has  not  flinched  from 
the  outlay  in  its  publication,  notwithstanding  the  book  was 
so  much  larger  than  was  at  first  expected,  and  was  so  much 
more  costly  to  print  than  nearly  any  other  book,  being  very 
much  crowded  and  full  of  matter,  with  no  vacant  places  to 
eke  out  the  book.  So  also  among  my  encouragements,  I 
must  say,  that  one  individual  in  a  high  official  position, — 
I  refer  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  "Wood, — has  been  an  undeviating 
sympathizer,  counsellor,  and  help  from  the  first  to  the  last. 

The  absence  of  Conferential  endorsation  has  relieved  me 
from  one  embarrassment :  I  have  been  preserved  from  the 
temptation  to  write  in  the  interests  of  a  party,  as  is  char- 
acteristic of  some  histories  I  wot  of ;  I  have  been  enabled  to 
preserve  my  own  individuality  and  to  keep  to  historic  truth- 
fulness, so  far  as  I  could  discover  the  truth.  I  have  not 
presented  the  Conference  and  Church  as  I  might  have  wished 
them  to  appear,  but  as  what  they  were. 

For  reasons  I  have  stated  in  former  Prefaces,  this  work  is 
not  perfect,  but,  in  fact,  is  very  imperfect :  still,  in  the  very 
nature  of  things,  a  first  edition  of  a  multifarious  work  of  this 
kind  must,  almost  inevitably,  be  so. 

This  volume  has  been  delayed  by  many  insuperable  ob 


A    FINAL    WORD    TO    THE    READER.  V 

stacles,  principally  by  the  crushing  injury  I  received  on  the 
8th  day  of  August  last,  from  which  I  barely  escaped  with 
my  life.  For  many  weeks  I  could  not  write  at  all,  and  to 
this  hour,  the  posture  to  be  taken  in  writing  is  most  painful 
to  assume.  And  now  I  have  to  hurry  the  work  through 
press. 

There  is  only  one  thing  about  which  I  am  particularly 
anxious,  namely  : — that  my  Publisher  may  be  reimbursed 
within  a  reasonable  time.  I  have  submitted  to  the  personal 
disagreeable  of  canvassing  for  my  own  work,  principally  to 
prevent  this  loss  to  him.  But  I  do  hope  that  the  ministers 
and  members  of  the  Church  will  now  aid  me  in  this  matter. 
There  are  many  of  them  to  whom  I  owe  much  in  my  humble 
endeavors  in  the  past. 

Some  of  the  individuals  mentioned,  or  who  have  a  right 
to  be  mentioned,  in  a  work  of  this  kind,  may  not  be  alto- 
gether pleased.  At  this  I  am  not  surprised,  for  I  have  not 
been  able  to  please  myself.  By  inadvertency,  in  a  few  cases, 
while  all  the  facts  have  been  given,  the  name  has  been  omit- 
ted. In  some  cases  a  temporary  laborer  has  been  over- 
looked altogether.  And  among  those  who  have  been  named, 
some  will  think  enough  has  not  been  said,  or  particulars  of 
interest  to  them  omitted  ;  and  some  will  wish  that  I  had  not 
been  so  minute,  or  particular,  with  regard  to  them  ;  there 
may  be  truth  in  all  this,  but  I  have  looked  at  the  interest 
and  information  of  the  general  reader ;  and  I  have  been 
swayed  by  what  I  thought  would  be  the  general  judgment  of 
those  who  knew  the  parties. 


VI  A    FINAL   WORD    TO    THE    READER. 

This  volume  will  have  appended  to  it  a  desideratum,  the 
need  of  which  has  been  felt  from  the  first,  namely,  an  Alpha- 
betical Index,  and  it  will  be  for  the  former  four  volumes  as 
well  as  this.  This  convenience  I  owe  to  the  ability  and 
painstaking  of  the  Rev.  Georgr  Henry  Cornish,  who  ex- 
cels in  such  matters.  I  had  not  time  and  strength  to  ac- 
complish it :  and  I  confess  I  have  not  the  ability  to  do  it  as 
he  has  completed  it.  From  this  piece  of  industry  and  care 
it  seems  that  no  less  than  nearly  thirteen  hundred  consider- 
able persons  connected  with  Canadian  Methodism,  lay  and 
clerical,  are  referred  to,  and  more  or  less  fully  described  in 
these  volumes. 

I  am  rejoiced  to  know  that  although  my  biographical  his 
tory  leaves  the  last  nineteen  years  of  our  Canadian  Metho- 
dist Jiistory  unnarrated — that  is  to  say,  from  1855  to  1874, 
when  our  present  comprehensive  organization  went  into 
effect — the  recent  published  recollections  of  his  public  life, 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Green,  who  has  been  so  conspicuously 
identified  with  Connexional  matters,  will  go  a  great  way  to- 
wards supplying  that  lack. 

Asking  pardon  for  all  my  short-comings,  and  for  all  the 
offences,  inadvertently,  given  to  any  one,  I  commend  these 
volumes  to  the  patronage  of  the  Methodist  Church  of  Canada 
and  to  the  countenance  and  furtherance  of  Almighty  God. 

The  Author. 

Don  Mount,  April,  1877. 


ANALYTICAL  INDEX  TO  VOL.  V. 


BOOK   TWELFTH. 


1847-48. 

PAGE 

1.  Meeting  of  Conference  "m  1847  and  of   the  Canada  Western  District- 

President  and  Secretary 1 

2.  Dr.  Alder,  and  Rev.  Messrs.  Wood  and  Harvard  introduced 2 

3.  Union  restored  by  vote  of  88  to  8 2 

4.  Assumption  of  the  chair  by  Dr.  Alder— Congratulations  and  prayer 3 

5.  Articles  of  the  re-constructed  Union  ;  embracing  the  relations  of  the 

English  and  Canada  Conferences— Chapel  property — President — Co- 
Delegate— Book  of  Discipline — Superintendent  of  Missions— Standing: 
Board— Canadian    Missionary   Society— British   Missionaries    now    in 

Canada — Trial  of  British  Conference  Members— Claims  of  such  3 

6.  Great  augmentation  of  the  ministerial  ranks 7 

7.  Rev  Dr.  Richey  co-Delegate  and  acting  President  through  the  year 8 

8.  9,  10,  and  11.  Rev.  Enoch  Wood,  Superintendent  of  Missions,  &c 8 

12.  Five  ministers  in  full  standing  never  before  connected  with  the  Confer- 

ence      9 

13.  Account  of  Rev.  Robert  Brooking 10 

14.  Rev.  Samuel  Dwight  Rice 10 

15.  Three  British  and  ten  Canadians  received  into  full  connexion 11 

16.  Intermediate  probationers  from  the  British  side  12 

17.  Three  received  on  trial :  Trickey,  McGill,  Nelles 12 

18.  McGill's  previous  history  12 

10.  Nelles's  antecedents 13 

20.  No  reduction  of  Conference  excepting  Butcher's  location 13 

21.  Manner  of  providing  for  Circuits  where  there  had  been  rival  interests ....  14 

22.  Number  of  Districts  and  who  were  the  Chairmen  — 15 

23.  Editor  and  Book  Steward,  Sanderson  and  Green— Dr.  Ryerson    15 

24.  How  Mr.  Case  was  situated— W.  Ames 16 

25.  No  increase  of  Districts,  but  Chairmen  to  travel  them  for  the  ensuing 

year,  and  why    16 

26.  Their  labors  untiring      16 

27.  So  with  the  rank  and  file— Particulars  of  several  Districts 16 

28.  Number  of  members  embarked  in  the  Union  from  the  two  sides,  but  no 

increase  on  the  first  year,  but  apparent  decrease . .  18 

29.  Papers  opposed  to  the  Connexion    18 

30.  Agitation  because  of  the  new  University  measure,  with  details  thereof. . .  18 
81.  Canada  Eastern  District  Meeting— Cox  and  Dorey 20 

32.  Particulars  of  the  two  named  20 

33.  Amended  Stations  for  Canada  East,  during  1847-48 21 

34.  Still  further  modifications — Cases  of  Rev.  Messrs.  Evans  and  Davidson  ..  21 
35  to  88.  Extracts  from  Mr.  Slight's  Journal,  illustrative  of  Lower  Canada 

work  22 

89.  Remarks  on  Mr.  Slight's  opinions— Philip  Embury 24 

40.  Slight  decrease— Total  number 24 


1848-49. 

41.  Conference  of  1848.     Rev.  Dr.  Dixon,  President  ^A 

42  to  44.  Further  interesting-  particulars  of  President  Dixon "^ 

45.  Rev.  Matthew  Richey  and  his  doctorate       *  •  ■  •  •  •  •  •  *° 

46.  Belleville    Conference— Vanduse,  Secretary-The  six   received  into    lull 

connexion    *** 

47.  Fi  ve  received  on  trial — Their  names *® 

48.  Particulars  of  John  G.  Laird    fjj 

49.  Case  of  James  Gooderham 30 

50.  Particulars  of  John  English 30 

51.  Some  account  of  Noble  Armstrong,  and  Lewis  Morton 30 

52.  Rev.  James  Evans— His  life  and  death 31 

53.  Three  discontinued,  on  different  several  grounds,  from  the  Conference 

roll — Snider — Connor 32 

54.  Robert  Darlington's  supernumeration  and  after  labors  32 

55.  The  Connexional  staff  at  Toronto— Drs.  Richey  and  Green,  and  Revs.  Wood 

and  Sanderson 32 

56.  Changes  in  the  City  of  Toronto— Evans,  Rice,  and  Davis 32 

57.  Supply  of  vacancies  in  Toronto  District— Nottawasaga,  Barrie,  and  Brock, 

with  R"eid,  Smith,  and  Gundy 33 

68.  Three  vacancies  in  the  London  District :  Sarnia,  St.  Clair,  Sydenham — 

Chase  —Account  of  Edward  White 33 

59.  Case  of  Gosfield  and  Amherstburg — Edwin  Clement 34 

60.  Brantford  District—  Budge  and  Fish— Fish's  labors  and  success — J.  Jack- 

son   36 

61.  Two  vacancies  in  the  Hamilton  District— G.  Smith— J.  S.  Evans 36 

62.  Cobourg  District — Case  in  charge  of  a  District  again  after  twenty  years  . .  36 

63.  Bytown  District— Budge  and  the  town  of  Bytown— L'Original  and  John 

B.  Armstrong — Squire,  the  Chairman  of  Kingston  District,  and  Shep- 
herd, of  Bytown  37 

64.  Three  who  received  appointments  in  Canada  East :  Lanton,  Scott,  Taylor 

— Botterell  to  P.  E.  Island 38 

65.  Sanderson,  Editor  ;  and  A.  Geeen  a  D.  D 38 

66.  Work  prosecuted  with  vigor,  but  disruption  in  London 39 

67.  Circuits  favored  with  revivals—  Letter  from  Rev.  W.  Case  (note)     ...      . .  30 

68.  Missionary  anniversaries  and  deputations .....  40 

69.  Literary  Institutions  of  the  denomination — A.  McNabb,  D.D 40 

7C.  Gain  on  the  year  1848-49— Total , 41 

71.  District  Meeting  for  Canada  East— Dr.  Richey  and  Mr.  Jenkins 41 

72.  A  history  of  Rev.  John  Jenkins 42 

73.  First  appearance  of  one  who  proved  a  remarkable  man  :  G.  Douglas 42 

74.  Things  cheering  in  that  Province  43 

75.  Veritable  Stations  for  the  year 43 

76.  Messrs.  Hutchinson  and  Graham— G.  Douglas's  intermediate  occupation.  44 

77.  Few  sources  of  information  about  the  labors  of  the  year 44 

78  and  79.  Illustrations  from  Rev.  B,  Slight's  MS.  Journal 44 

SO.  Causes  of  small  numerical  progress — Membership  in  the  two  sections. . . .  45 

1849-50. 

81.  Hamilton  Conference 4Q 

82.  Dr.  Richey  actual  President,  &c ; 46 

83.  Deliberations  passed  smoothly,  with  one  exception 46 

84.  Six  received  into  full  connexion— A  slight  anticipation  of  their  history  ..  46 

85.  Intermediate  probationers  passed  over — Eight  formally  received  on  trial 

— Those  who  had  labored  under  a  Chairman  and  those  who  had  not. ...  47 

86.  Byrne  and  Griffin 4g 

87.  Particulars  of  A.  S.  Byrne 4g 

88.  W.  S.  Griffin's  previous  history [  49 

89.  A  minister  of  fifty  received — C.  Byrne 50 

90.  The  functionaries  at  the  Publishing  House 50 

91.  J.  Ryerson's  visit  to  England   , ]  t .  50 

92.  Revs.  J.  Jenkins  and  J.  G.  Witted \\\  50 

93.  Hiati  in  the  Minutes  to  be  supplied 51 


INDEX.                      "  IX 

PAGE 

94.  Toronto  District :  Nottagawasa  and  St.  Vincent — Reid  and  Rice1 fil 

95.  London  District :  Wardsville,  Chatham,  and  St.  Thomas  Circuits— Pea- 

cock, Armstrong,  and  T.  Stobbs    51 

96.  Brantford  District:  Woodstock,  &c 53 

97.  Hamilton  District :  Grimsby  and  Barber 53 

98.  Scugog  in  the  Coboiirg  District 53 

99.  Case  of  Peter  Jones,  S.  D.  Rice,  C.  Lavell,  L.  Demorest,  and  D.  Hardie  ..  54 

100.  Indian  Industrial  School  at  Muncey    64 

101.  Sailing  of  the  Representative r 54 

101.  President  purposes  to  travel  at  large 54 

102.  The  "  rank  and  file"  struggle  hard  against  the  untoward  prejudices  of  the 

times 55 

103.  Camp-meetings  in  Vaughan— Among  the  Indians— Ingathering 55 

104.  Good  news  from  thirty-six  several  Circuits 56 

105.  Goodly,  but  not  great  increase 56 

106.  Methodism  in  Canada  East  —MS.  Journal  exhausted 56 

107.  Stations  of  Canada  Eastern  District 57 

108.  Four  known  to  be  authentic 57 

109.  Long  extracts  from  B.  Slight's  MS.  Journal   ; 57 

110.  Records  the  Chairman's  sudden  death 59 

111.  Circumstances  of  Rev.  M.  Lang's  death— Numbers 69 

112.  The  above  specimen  labors 61 

1850-51. 

113.  Brockville  Conference— Dr.  Richey— A.  Hurlburt,  Secretary   61 

114.  Fifteen  received  into  full  Connexion— Six  afterwards  Chairmen— Emin- 

ence of  others 61 

116.  Five  recruits— Names  and  nationalities 62 

116.  I.  Barber's  previous  labors    ". .  62 

117.  W.  Burns'  character  and  history , 62 

118.  R.  M.  Hammond's  character  and  history 62 

1 19.  Particulars  of  Andrew  A.  Smith    64 

120.  Particulars  of  Joseph  Hugill    65 

121.  Old  soldiers  putting  off  the  harness — Healy— Metcalf's  obsequies  65 

122.  The  visit  of  Dr.  Bangs  and  Rev.  C.  Churchill 66 

123.  The  particulars  and  pleasure  of  Dr.  Bangs'  visit,  &c 67 

124.  Official  Connexional  appointments— Removals— Rice  and  Rose 67 

125.  Dr.  McNabb's  resignation  and  provisions  to  supply  his  place— Nelles    ....  68 

126.  Dr.  Ryerson,  failing  to  reach  the  Session  of  British  Conference,  confided 

his  duties  to  Dr.  Alder 69 

127.  The  supplement  to  the  Barrie  District  Stations :  Muirhead,  Clarke,  Smith, 

De*n,  B.  Jones 69 

128.  London  District :  Hutchinson  and  Strathroy , 70 

129.  Chatham  and  Joel  Briggs 71 

129.  No  real  vacancy  at  Amherstburg— Thomas  Stobbs 72 

130.  Brantford  District— Error  about  Woodstock  72 

131.  Glanford— G.  Young  to  London— Haw  in  his  place— W.  Creighton 73 

182.  Supply  for  Nanticoke— G.  Washington,  1st 73 

183.  Wm.  Case's  assistant  at  Alderville— G.  McDougall  73 

134.  Sidney  Circuit— Fawceit,  A.  D.  Miller 74 

135.  Kingston  District,  Waterloo— J.  W.  McCollum  and  John  Wesley  German  76 

186.  Osgoode :  Shaler,  S.  Huntingdon  * 75 

187,  L.  Tayior  returned  by  C,  E.  with  thanks,  and  Lavell  asked  for  another 

year 76 

138   A  testimonial  to  Rev.  John  Black 76 

189.  Union  Camp-meetiug  f or  Yonge  Street,  Newmarket,  and  Humber  Circuits    76 

140.  Good  services  of  Burlington  Academy 76 

141.  Dr.  Ryerson  appointed  to  the  Chief  Superintendency  of  Schools 77 

*  There  is  an  error  here  :  Huntingdon  spent  that  year  on  the  Cltirejidon  Cir  - 
Bit,  and  Mr.  Scaler's  assistant  was  Andrew  tycAUUter, 


3E  INDEX. 

PAGE 

142.  Missionary  income  augmented 77 

143.  News  from  England  of  the  appointment  of  Rev.  Messrs.  Wood  and  J. 

Ryerson  to  the  two  highest  offices ....     77 

144.  New  church— 145.  Good  augury  for  the  College 77 

146.  Revivals  in  two  Circuits 77 

147.  LetterfromP.  Jones— 148.  Wesley  Church 77 

149.  Owen  Sound  Camp-meeting  -150.  Do.  Manning  Settlement 78 

151.  Revival  on  Napanee — 152.  Missionary  Anniversary 78 

153.  Saugeen— 154.  Letters  from  Rev.  T.  Bevitt 78 

155.  Brick   parsonage— 156.   Stratford,  Brampton,  St.   Thomas,  and  Dundas 

Circuits 78 

157.  Chippewa  Chapel— 158:  Good  news  from  Malahide,  Pee],  Norwood,  New- 
boro',     Bowmanville,    Orillia,    Glanford,    Cornwall,    &c.— Church    at 

Cline's 79 

159.  Gain  of  1,170  souls  in  1850-51 79 

160.  C.  E.  District  Meeting 79 

161.  Particulars  of  the  above  Stations 79 

162.  Whom  we  miss 80 

163.  Shut  up  to  Mr.  Slight's  Journal 80 

164  to  172.  Transcript  of  interesting  particulars 81 

173.  Returns — Decrease — Totals  83 

1851-52. 

174.  Coincidence  of  the  first  year  of  President  Wood  with  the  27th  Session  of 

Canada  Conference  -  Satisfactory 84 

175.  A  layman's  letter  concerning  this  Conference    84 

176.  Rev.  James  Musgrove,  Secretary . .  85 

177.  Brethren  fully  received  :  Webster,  Osborn,  McGill,  and  Henry  Reid 85 

178.  Nineteen  candidates  for  admission  86 

179.  Names  of  ten  who  had  labored  the  year  before 86 

180*  Case  of  A.  Campbell    86 

181.  David  Sawyer,  an  Indian  preacher 87 

182.  Thomas  Crews'  labors  the  year  before— J.  S.  Evans 87 

183.  McRitchie's  antecedents 88 

184.  Eight  candidates  and  their  nationality 88 

185.  History  of  Richard  Clarke 89 

186.  History  of  James  Preston 90 

187.  Drummond  G.  Fletcher 90 

188.  Wm.  Sanderson— 189.  Robert  Brewster 91 

190.  McAllister— 191.  Robert  Hobbs 91 

192.  David  Robertson 92 

193.  A  previous  blunder  corrected  relating  to  the  two  brothers  McDowell    ....  92 

194.  Death  of  Wilson,  Ferguson,  and  Byrne ,  .  93 

195.  Obituary  of  Rev.  Jas.  Wilson 93 

196.  Obituary  of  Rev.  G.  Ferguson 93 

197.  Byrne's  obituary  in  extenso 94 

198.  G.  R.  Sander's  retirement  and  James  Spencer's  elevation  to  the  Editorial 

Chair — Antithetical  contrast    96 

199.  Propose  to  inquire  after  supplies 97 

200.  Supply  for  Humber— Wm.  Richardson— Case  of  Nelson  Circuit 97 

201.  Mr.  Warner  and  Barrie  District— Beausoliel,  &C.—S.  James— G.  McDougall 

and  Bruce  Mines 98 

202.  Nottawasaga — J.  M.  Clarke — His  Journal 98 

203.  Clarke's  entrance  into  the  Ministry , , "         ...    "  99 

204.  London    District    and    change  of    Chairman— The    four    vacancies    and 

supplies 99 

205.  First  pair—  Early  history  and  character — John  Shaw 99 

206.  Chatham  and  James  Taylor 100 

207.  Wallaceburg  and  St.  Thomas  :  Harman,  Hugill,  E.  H.  Dewart    101 

208.  Amherstburg— Whiting— W.  Williams 102 

209.  Brantford  District  ;  Ingersoll  and  Norwich 102 

310.  Hamilton  District :  Nanticoke— Baxter  and  Tomblin 208 


INDEX.  XI 

HAGE 

211.  Dunnville:  J.  Hunt  and  G.  Washington 103 

212.  S.  Waldron  and  Elora— Edmund  Cooke 103 

213.  Peel ;  Rev.  E.  Adams  and  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Swann 104 

214.  Three  vacancies  in  the  Cobourg  District— Scugog — Alderville  andT.  Hurl- 

burt— HetcaU  and  T.  McMullen 104 

215.  Good  news  from  McMullen's  Mission . .  105 

216.  Belleville  District :  Picton  and  B.  Jones— Sidney  and  H.  Jones 105 

217.  Newboro',  in  the  Kingston  District— M.  Baxter  and  John  Mills    106 

218.  Hinchinbrooke  unexplained 106 

219.  Brockville  and;Bytown  Districts  :  J.  G.  Witted 106 

220.  A  year  of  great  Connexional  activity 106 

221.  Places  where  Camp-meetings  were  held    . .  170 

222.  New  churches,  &c. : — Bradford,   Learn 's,  King,  Janestown,  Kizer's,  Bur- 

ford,  Hamilton,  Bytown,  Vandusen's,  Port  Hope,  Strathroy,  North 
Port,  Waterdown,  Prince  Albert,  Mercea  Street,  Cookstown 107 

223.  Good  news  from  various  Circuits 107 

224.  From  Bruce  Mines  and  Garden  River,  Wellesley,  Rawdon,  Neleon,  Ham- 

ilton, Madoc,  Proton,  Brockville  District,  St.  Catharines  and  neigh- 
bouring Circuits,  Glanford,  Markham,  Brighton,  Chatham,  Waterloo, 
Kingston,  St.  Thomas,  Alderville,  Rice  Lake,  St.  Clair,  Hurlburt,  Aln- 
wick, Mono,  Port  Hope,  Green  Bush,  and  Wardsville 108 

225.  The  greatest  success  in  Toronto 109 

226.  The  Financial  District  Meeting  satisfactory 109 

227.  Lay  suspicion  about  the  Bill  for  incorporating  Connexional  Funds 109 

228.  Re-opening  of  the  Clergy  Reserve  Question 110 

229.  Sunday-school  Soeiety  and  S.  S.  Guardian 11 0 

230.  Deaths :  C.  Biggar,  Esq.,  Mr.  J.  VanCamp 110 

231.  Rev.  J.  Ryerson  starts  for  St.  Rupert's  Land,  via  England Ill 

232.  Gain  and  total  numbers  for  Canada  West Ill 

233.  Scarce  materials  relative  to  Canada  East Ill 

234  to  237.  Full  account  of  the  business  and  prospects  of  Lower  Canada  Dis- 
trict, from  the  pen  of  Rev.  J,  Borland Ill 

238.  Stations  for  Canada  East  during  1851-52— Case  of  G.  N.  A.  F.  T.  Dickson..  113 

239.  Note  of  encouragement  from  Mr.  Brock 113 

240.  Good  news  from  Granby,  per  Rev.  R.  A.  Flanders . . . . ; 114 

241.  Letter  from  Rev.  J.  Borland — 114 

242.  Communication  from  a  friendly  Presbyterian— Leeds   114 

243.  Making  up  totals 115 

1852-53. 

244.  The  Conference  for  1852  in  Kingston— President,  co-Delegate,  Mr.  Sander- 

son, Secretary— Harmonious  and  devout 116 

245.  Names  of  ten  admitted  into  full  connexion— Three  performed  five  years' 

labor  116 

248.  Case  of  F.  Berry  peculiar 116 

247.  The  public  reoeption,  Messrs.  Case  and  Carroll,  and  Dr.  Ryerson  . .  117 

248.  Nine  received  on  trial— Names 117 

249.  Henry  Jones  described 117 

260.  McAllister  and  Preston  retire  for  want  of  health— Death  of  McAllister,  &c.  118 

261.  Eev.  C.  Turver  visits  England 118 

262.  Fallot  Jonathan  Loverin 118 

268.  Visit  from  Rev.  James  Brock  118 

264.  Rev.  J.  Ryerson  Representative  to  English  Conference— Does  not  go  to 

Hudson's  Bay 119 

266.  Speakers  at  the  Conference  Missionary  Meeting 119 

266.  Touching  address  and  request  of  Mr.  Case,  who  was  released  from  respon- 

sibility—Mr. Musgrove,  &c 119 

267.  Rev.  L.  Taylor  renewing  his  strength  for  a  wider  field  120 

268.  Incumbents  at  the  Book  and  Printing  Establishment 120 

269.  Toronto  District :  Humber  and  a  young  Irishman— McDonagh 120 

260.  Bramton,  Young,  and  Blackstock,  and  a  nameless  supply 122 

261.  Georgetown  and  Jos.  Messmore  122 

262.  Nelson,  McCoUum,  Hunt,  Prlndle,  Washington 123 


Xll  INDEX. 

#  PAOB 

263.  Stouffville  and  Snake  Island  provided  for  by  their  neighbors - .  •  •  123 

264.  Barrieandits  extemporized  supply— A  comparison  between  Harris  and 

Edwards J|j 

265.  St.  "Vincent  and  Derby,  with  their  probable  supplies 1  j& 

266.  Sandwich  and  Windsor — Ames 1*° 

267.  Cayuga  add  Elora r""!AL" 

268.  Scugog  and  Mud  Lake— Antecedents  and  character  of  H.  O.  Ellsworth- 

Name  omitted— Note  concerning  Woolsey.but  in  the  wrong  place 126 

269.  Belleville  :  J.  Ryerson  and  Preston-  Case  of  Thomas  D.  Pearson 128 

270.  Consecon  and  Witted— Allison 129 

271.  Bungerford  and  John  D.  Pugh    129 

272.  Kingston,    Brockville,    Bytown— M.    Baxter— Hinchinbrooke,    Keegan— 

Maitland,  Peake— T.  McMullen 129 

273.  Great  activity— Guardian— S.  S.  Advocate    130 

274.  Rev.  S.  D.  Rice,  and  efforts  to  redeem  the  College 130 

275.  A  Collegiate  Church 131 

276.  Professor  Wright  and  Professor  Wilson    131 

277.  A  church  and  parsonage  building  year — Instances    131 

278.  Churches  in  Essa  and  Port  Stanley 132 

279.  Moraviantown  Chapel 132 

280.  New  church  in  Reach,  &c 132  ? 

281.  Hewitt's  Church,  Mono  Road 132 

282.  Richard  Phelps  and  Morpeth,  &c 132 

283.  Carlisle  and  its  new  jhurch   132 

284.  New  church  in  Gait — Eminent  brothers   133 

285.  Camp-meetings  and  their  good 133 

286.  Camp-meetings  at  Brampton,  Chatham,  Mono,  Woolwich 133 

287.  Strathroy,  Toronto  West,  Norwich,  Jackson's  S.  H.,  Garden  River 133 

288.  Tuscarora  Indians  and  A.  Sickles 133 

289.  Great  i  evivals  in  Kingston  and  Hamilton,  under  Mr.  Caughey 134 

290.  The  general  gain  on  the  year 134 

291.  Canada  East— Temporary  Chairman 134 

292.  Time  and  place  of  District  Meeting 134 

293.  Pleasing  Session 134 

294.  Tried,  but  preserved , .,  135 

295.  Ingathering  of  soals 135 

296.  Three  probationers— Two  ordained  for  special  purposes— Sermon  by  Mr. 

Davidson 135 

297.  Anniversary  Meeting  of  District  Missionary  Society 136 

298.  Future  position  and  relations  of  the  District 136 

299.  Rev.  J.  Brock  Representative  to  Canada  Conference 136 

300.  Unmistakable  indications  of  amalgamation 136 

301.  List  of  Stations  for  1852-53 ,  136 

302.  Quebec  news,  from  Mr.  Borland 137 

303.  Sadden  death  of  Rev.  Wm.  Squire 138 

304.  Letter  in  the  Guardian  from  a  Montreal  layman 138 

305.  "  G.  H.  D's  "  letter  of  encouragement 138 

306.  Their  doings  estimated  by  results— Provincial  and  general  totals   !!.,!!..  139 

1853-54. 

307.  Conference  preceded  by  C.  E.  District ,  i^q 

308.  Conference  in  McNab  Street  Church,  Hamilton— Rev.'  E*  Wood— I    B 

Howard,  Secretary "      '  *      '  ijq 

309.  Four  in  full  connexion  with  Conference i  4q 

310.  E.  L.  Koyle,  from  another  body .!.!!!.. 141 

311.  Seven  candidates— Names- Who  presented  before".!'.*.". 141 

312.  S.  E.  Maudsley — Antecedents,  &c ."....."!! 140 

313.  Thomas  Woolsey  from  London *" \ |t„ 

314.  Edwin  Peake— Last  year  with  Rev.  W.  McGill  .'...'!.'!.*!.'!.'!.' 1 A 

315.  Allen  Salt,  Indian  preacher V.V. '.*.*.".".". 140 

316.  Richard  John  Forman  and  his  history !!!!!!!! 14! 

317.  Staff  officers  unchanged !!'.!!!.! 1 44 

318.  Omissions  of  the  Minutesto  be  supplemented ....... 145 


INDEX.  XU1 

PAGE 

310.  Brampton^and  Joseph  E,  Sanderson 145 

320.  Nelson  and  Robert  Fowler,  M.D 146 

321.  Nanticoke  and  its  two  supplies  :  Ira  B.  Kilborn  and  John  V.  Wilson 146 

322.  Dunnyille  and  Wm.  Torablin 147 

323.  Supply  for  Grand  River— Surmise    about    Peter    Jones— Norwich   and 

Ingersoll— Case  of  Rev.  Joseph  Shepley  and  Paris;  Aylmer,  &c ....  147 

324.  White's  assistant  at  Windsor,  &c— William  Williams 148 

325.  New  District— Two  supplies  of  great  promise — Elora  and  George  Cochran  149 

326.  Mitchel  and  Lucius  Adams 150 

327.  Mono,  its  preachers  and  successes 152 

328.  No  response  from  Barrie 163 

329.  Lindsay  and  G.  J.  Ding-man 153 

330.  Norwood  and  John  Fawcett 153 

331.  Hungerford  and  an  extraordiuary  supply — L.  Houghton  153 

332.  Hinchinbrooke  and  Storrington— Newborough  and  William  Bryers    154 

333.  No  help  for  V.  B.  Howard  at  Cornwall  . . .  t 155 

334.  Lochaber  and  Richard  Wilson 155 

335.  Clarendon  and  its  supplies— Andrew  Armstrong 155 

336.  Several  specialties — A  Miller's  rest— E.  Hurlburt  and   W,  Andrews  for 

Canada  East    ......  156 

337.  Case  in  the  "Thames  Country" 156 

338.  Original  letter  to  Digman 157 

339.  Intense  activity  of  a  strong  force 157 

340.  A  summary  digest   158 

341.  Statistics  of  the  Hamilton  revival ...  158 

342.  Impulse  by  Camp-meetings — Three  named 159 

343.  More  particularized 159 

344.  News  of  revivals  from  twenty  Circuits  and  more 160 

345.  Importance  of  churches 160 

346.  The  Collegiate  Church,  Cobourg 161 

347.  Revival  and  church  at  LaChute      161 

348.  Norwood,  Garden  River,  and  Percy  Mill's  Churches 161 

349.  Tosotoronto  and  Mono  Circuit 161 

350.  Brighton  and  Frankford  Church 161 

351.  McCullough  and  Perrytown  Church 162 

352.  London  and  Bruce  Mines  Churches 162 

353.  Woodstock  Church 162 

354.  Collection  for  Conference  students    162 

355.  Clergy  Reserve  Question 162 

356.  Rev.  S.  D.  Rice  in  the  service  of  Victoria  College 163 

857.  He  man  Hurlburt  and  his  biographer 163 

358.  Missionary  meetings  and  deputations— Hurlbur*  and  Herkimer — Advance.  163 
859.  How  these  chronicles  may  close ]  63 

360.  Numerical  gains 164 

361.  Canada  Eastern  District 164 

362.  Rev.  E.  Wood  and  that  District  Meeting 164 

363.  Counselling  with  lay-officials 165 

364.  Harmony  and  interest 165 

865.  Case  of  Brethren  Ingalls  and  John  Douglas 165 

866.  Deputation  to  Canada  Conference  :  Jenkins,  Borland,  and  ..rock 165 

867.  Stations  as  supplemented  by  an  Upper  Canada  loan 

868.  Cases  of  Dickson  and  E.  Hurlburt,  of  Eaton'and  Graham -Vacai  ;  *»*  at 

Durham,  Brome,  Sutten,  Duds  well,  Danville,  and  Gaspe 

869.  Glimpses  of  labor  and  success f    , 

870.  News  of  British  Conference  concurrence 

871.  Quebec  and  Rev.  James  Caughey 

872.  New  life-blood— Unusual  increase— Totals 16 


XIV  INDEX. 

BOOK  THIRTEENTH. 

CASE  AND  HIS  COTEMPORARIES  AMALGAMATED  INTO   ONE  HOMOGENOEUS  WHOLE. 

1854-55. 

PAGE 

1.  A  short  but  final  epoch  in  our  history 169 

2.  Where  and  when  the  epochal  Conference  sat— The  number  of  ministers 

— Deputation  and  visitor 169 

3.  President  and  co-Delegate— I.  B.  Howard,  Secretary  169 

4.  No  change  in  Connexional  officers,  excepting  Dr.  Green — G.  R.  Sanderson, 

Book  Steward 170 

5.  Absence  of  a  distinguished  man  from  the  central  position 170 

6.  Important  question  of  the  class-meeting  test  of  membership  raised — De- 

bate and  debaters— Retirement  of  the  mover  for  one  year 170 

7.  Prevailing  laxity — Advice 172 

8.  The  proposal  for  amalgamation  of  the  Eastern  District  endorsed 173 

9.  The  progress  of  endowment  by  scholarships 173 

10.  Sixteen  received  into  full  connexion— Case,  Green,  and    Borland  speakers  174 

11.  The  names  of  the  fully  admitted— The  two  from  Lower  Canada 174 

12.  The  great  number  taken  on  trial— Their  names 174 

13.  Some  who  had  labored  a  year  without  credit 174 

14.  Mere  surmises  in  some  cases -. 174 

15.  Ashton  Fletcher,  the  younger  . 175 

16.  Jay  S.  Youmans,  and  his  history 175 

17.  John  S.  Clarke,  and  his  history 176 

18.  John  Wakefield— before  and  after 176 

19.  William  Scales,  history,  character,  size 177 

20.  Peter  German,  a  married  man,  &c 177 

21.  Wm.  Braden,  not  Briden,  comes  out  from  Osnabruck 178 

*  22.  Samuel  G.  Philips— Canada  East— St.  Johns 178 

23.  George  F.  Richardson — More  on  a  subsequent  page 178 

24.  George  Jaques,  nationality,  &c— More  to  follow 178 

25.  Two  who  went  to  Episcopalianism— Davidson  and  Montgomery — Resem- 

blances and  contrasts  179 

26.  Those  have  finished  their  course 179 

27.  The  first,  George  Poole-Obituary. 179 

28.  Rev.  James  Booth— British  Minutes 180 

29.  Silence  on  the  Clergy  Reserves .    ..  181 

30.  The  number  stationed  this  epochal  year 181 

31.  An  instalment  of  the  Stations  by  Districts— Toronto  Disferi«t,  &c 181 

32.  Next  in  order— Hamilton  District 182 

33.  Cases  of  Cainsville  and  Corson — Nanticoke  and  Wilson — Welland 183 

34.  Brautford  District  Stations,  with  note  about  Woodstock  and  Morgan  184 

35.  Revds.  W.  S.  Griffin,  and  P.  German's  accounts  of  their  Circuits,  respec- 

tively  185 

36.  London  District  Stations —Note  showing  the  exchange  of  Stobbs   ajid 

Creighton 186 

37.  Assistant  for  Sarnia — Wm.  Hawke 188 

38    Warwick  and  John  Wesley  Savage 188 

39.  Stations  of  the  Chatham  District 189 

40.  Who  will  tell  the  vacancies,  deaths,  and  falls — Hutchinson 189 

41.  Guelph  District  Stations 190 

42.  Elora  and  Guelph  —Dyer  and  Clarke 19q 

43.  Peel  and  Alexander  R.  Campbell    , ,  I9j 

44.  What,  and  how  we  find  out  about  James  Berry 192 

45.  Morris  and  Rev.  A.  Campbell— Note  explanatory — John  Hough 192 

46.  Stations  in  the  Owen  Sound  District 19g 

47.  Four  supplies  wanting — Wisdom  of  employing  temporary  laborers  I9p 

48.  Edmund  Cooke—  Peculiar,  but  true 19| 

Father  Atkey"— Good  life  and  happy  death 19^ 


INDEX.  XV 

PAGE 

60.  Case  and  antecedents  of  Wm.  Shannon 195 

61.  Some  account  of  Peter  Empy '. 195 

52.  A  young  married  laborer— W.  K.  Dyre 197 

53.  Attempt  to  distribute  and  locate  the  four  supplies 197 

54.  Stations  in  the  Barrie  District 197 

65.  Surmises  about  Beausoliel  and  Snake  Island — Orillia — J.  B.  Keough 198 

56.  Stations  for  the  Cobourg  District — Note  on  Mud  Lake  and  its  Supply  ....  199 

57.  No  supply  for  Lindsay  with  Rev.  Thos.  Hanna 200 

58.  Millbrook  and  Samuel  Down — His  characteristics 200 

59.  A  Chairman's  supply  for  Metcalfe 201 

60.  Norwood— Exchange  between  supplies 201 

61.  Stations  for  the  Bellevile  District 201 

62.  One  vacancy,  satisfactorily  supplied— Sidney  and  David  A.  Johnson 201 

63.  Kingston  District  and  its  stations 202 

64.  Two  of  the  four  supplies  ascertained— William  Briden  and  Sheffield 203 

66.  "  Storrington"  or  Battersea  supplied  by  James  Thompson,  his  obituary.  203 

66.  Stations  of  the  Brockville  District 205 

67.  Reserve  the  annotations  and  give  the  Bytown  District  Stations  205 

68.  Four  supplies  required— Three  ascertained— Cavignal  and  W.  L.  Hewett..  206 

69.  Osgoode,  Pattyson,  J.  A.  Dowler,  supply 206 

70.  Clarendon  and  L.  Houghton — Grenville  and  James  Roy   207 

71.  Cases  of  Costello  and  Luke — Surmises  about  James  Masson's  Circuit — 

Character  and  capabilities 208 

72.  Another  for  this  category  ;  Richard  Pinch  and  Blenheim 208 

73.  Facts  omitted  by  hurry 209 

(1)  Data  about  Wm.  Hawke 209 

m      "        "    George  Jaques 209 

(3)  Dunnville  and  1854-55  and  '55-56 209 

(4)  More  facts  about  G.  T.  Richardson ', 210 

(5)  "        "      "      J.  W.  Savage  210 

(6)  "        "    and  connections  of  Wm.  Scales  210 

74.  Stations  for  Canada  put  all  together— Six  U.  C.  Canadians  in  the  East . .   . .  210 

75.  Manifesto  relative  to  that  section  of  the  work  and  the  stations  arranged  in 

three  Districts 211 

76.  Montreal  no  vacancy— Quebec  three— Stanstead  one  213 

77.  Point  Levi  and  its  supply — Edward  Cragg's  letter    213 

78.  The  "  Ambassadors  sent  unto  Heathens  "—Names  213 

79.  Four  considerable  men  :  J.  Ryerson,  S.  Hurlburt,  Brooking,  and  Salt—  Ac- 

count of  Mr.  Ryerson  till  then 214 

80.  Hurlburt's  labors  and  attainments 214 

81.  Mr.  Brooking  and  his  missionary  life 215 

82.  None  superior  to  Mr.  Salt  in  his  way 215 

83.  The  women  and  children  in  the  missionary  party — Mesdames  Hurlburt, 

Brooking,  and  Salt—  Gov.  Simpson    215 

84.  Mr.  Salt  the  first  located  :  "  Rainy  Lake"  216 

85.  Red  River  striking  the  eye  of  Mr.  Ryerson 216 

86.  How  their  course  thence  tended 216 

87.  Course  of  the  party  after  leaving  Mr.  Hurlburt 217 

88.  Mr.  Brooking  goes  on  past  his  station  with  Messrs.  Ryerson  and  Htein- 

hanr  to  York  Factory   218 

89.  Messrs.  Ryerson  and  Steinhaur,  after  a  short  stay  in  England,  recross  the 

Atlantic  to  Canada 218 

90.  History  of  Steinhaur  from  childhood  till  then    218 

91.  Proceedings  of  this  climacteric  y  ear 219 

92.  Camp-meetings  and  in  what  places    219 

93.  Revivals,  however,  arising i 219 

94.  An  attempt  to  particularise  the  places  and  character  of  revivals 219 

95.  Missionary  and  Anniversary  now  commingled 220 

96.  Places  where  churches  built  and  opened,  &c 220 

97.  Dr.  Green*s  account  of  a  visit  to  the  British  Conference,  and  Peter  Jones's 

visit  to  the  Christian  Union  Convention  . .  220 

98.  Things  sober  and  sad— Death  of  O'Loan 221 

99.  Mixed  Convention— Its  rise  221 

100.  The  character  and  call  of  the  "Joint  Committee" 222 


INDEX. 


101.  Apprehensions,  but  needless ._ 222 

102.  Number  of  laymen  appointed^ Opening  and  organization  of  proceeding  . .  228 

103.  The  gist  of  recommendations  afterwards  modified  by  the  enactments  of  the 

Quarterly  Meetings— [See  note.] 223 

104.  Missionary  Anniversary  and  Report — Progress ■  •■   224 

105.  Rising  trouble  in  Montreal 228 

106.  Former  relation  of  Montreal  churches— An  attempt  to  make  three  circuits 

by  District  Meeting 228 

107.  Both  parties  appealed  to  the  Canadian  authorities— Extraordinary  meet- 

ing, and  confirmation  of  the  arrangement 229 

108.  Resignation  of  suburban    officials— A  plan  for  pacifying  them  by  the 

chairman  230 

109.  Reasons  for  a  measure  so  bold 231 

110.  Letter   to    the   President— Cautious   answer— Executive    disapproval- 

Measure  set  aside  by  co-Delegate -    231 

111.  Recalcitrant  officials  withdrew  and  seventy  members  lost 232 

112.  Lessons  to  bt,  learned 232 

113.  Displacement  and  removal  of  the  chairman— Slow  return  to  favor* 233 

114.  Reform  Ministry  bring  in  a  Bill  to  alienate  the  Clergy  Reserves  wholly 

from  religion— Action  of  laymen  at  Kingston 238 

115  to  120.  Elder  Case's  last  year  exhibited:  letter  to  Rev.  Dr.  Bangs 234 

121.  The  results,  or  gains  for  the  year 237 


1855. 

THE  BALANCE  OF  THE  TEAR  AND  THE  DEATH  OF  CASE, 

122.  Effort  to  rise  to  the  jubilation  of  this  Conference 287 

123.  Place  and  composition  of  the  Ccnference 137 

124.  Genial  month  and  weather 238 

125.  Conference  officers  and  distinguished  visitors 238 

» 126.  Comparison  or  contrast  between  the  year  1805  and  when  Mr.  Case  entered 

the  country  and  this  year— Progress 289 

127.  Delivers  his  Jubilee  Sermon 239 

128.  Modest  and  reverend  character  of  his  service  239 

129.  Three  young  men— one  middle-aged,  and  one  aged  passed  away,  Prindle.  240 

130.  God  burying  His  workmen,  but  carrying  on  His  work 241 

131.  Account  of  the  Revs.  Thomas  Robson  and  Thomas  Lawson 241 

132.  Number  of  additional  labors,  and  whole  number  stationed,  &c 242 

183.  Inability  to  be  minute 243 

134.  Morden,  Latimer,  A.  Fletcher,  Sen.,  S.  Tucker,  Revs.  M.  H.  Laird  and 

Crane 243 

135.  Particulars  of  the  first  three,  one  Morden  not  to  be  confounded  with 

another 248 

136.  Latimer  more  at  large 243 

137.  Particulars  of  Mr.  Fletcher,  Sen 244 

138.  Crane  and  Tucker,  &c _ 244 

139.  W.  H.  Laird  and  Russ  contrasted  somewhat » 244 

140.  Some  of  the  supplies,  &c ...   245 

141.  Take  them  as  they  turn  up  :  (1)  Edward  Ward,  (2)  Thomas  Cobb,  (3)  Win. 

Hansford,  (4)  Thomas  S.  Howard,  (5)  J.  N.  Lake,  (6)  Wm.  Norton, 
(7)  H.  Fowler,  (S)  H.  H.  Perdue,  (9)  M.  Short,  (10)  M.  L.  Scott, 
(11)  Jas.  Berry,  (12)  C.  Stringfellow,  (13)  two  married  men,  Davies, 
Atkinson,  obituary,  (14)  E.  E.  Sweet,  and  B.  Cole— Particulars  of  both, 
(15)  A.  Andrews,  (16)  S.  Bond,  (17)  J.  E.  Betts 245 

142.  Notable  man— Account  of  Rev.  A.  Sutherland ",*,,,  268 

143.  Conference  addressed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Beech  am 255 

144.  Close  of  Conference 265 

146.  Testimonials - 256 

146.  Glowing  news  in  the  Guardian *  266 

147.  Victoria  College— Moral  Governor,  S.  D.  Rice  ;  Graduates,  E.  B.  Ryokman. 

A.  Carman,  B.  M,  Britton(  —  Parker's  prelection,  &c 256 


INDEX. 


148.  Account  of  Autumn  Session  ... ' 257 

149.  Revival  among  Sunday-school  children . .  257 

150.  Triumph  East  and  West 267 

151.  Case  and  his  relation  to  the  work  —Letter  from  Steinhaur 268 

162.  Cheerful  old  man— Letter  from  Case 258 

153.  "Master  to  be  taken  from  the  head  of  the  lesser  prophets"— Cathey's 

letter 259 

154.  Intimation  of  Mr.  Case's  fall v 260 

155.  Account  of  his  death  and  burial 260 

156.  More  particulars  about  his  funeral— How  so  many  ministers  were  there . .  261 

167.  Summary  of  his  character , 262 

158.  Tablet  to  his  memory  in  Belleville— Belay  of  the  Conference  memorial  . .  263 


REV.  WILLIAM  CASE, 


HIS     COTEMPOEAEIES. 


BOOK    rWEXiIFTII. 


CASE    RESTOEED     TO    HIS    CANADA     BRETHREN     FOR    THE    REST 
OF    LIFE. 


1847-48. 

1.  The  anxious  year  of  negotiation  and  expectation  ended 
its  tardy  moons  at  length,  and  the  Conference  of  1847  com- 
menced its  sittings  in  Toronto,  on  Monday,  the  third  of 
June,  with  a  full  attendance  of  members,  and  proved  a 
valuable  and  happy  session.  The  meeting  of  the  Canada 
Western  District  had  been  made  to  coincide  with  it  in  point 
of  time  and  place,  so  far  as  the  city  was  concerned.  The 
Conference  sat  in  the  old  Adelaide  Street,  Church  and  the 
the  district  meeting  convened  in  the  larger  and  newer 
iJi-itish  Wesleyan  Church  in  Richmond  Street.  The  Rev. 
Wm.  Martin  Harvard,  A.M.,  was  the  chairman  of  the  latter, 
and  the  Rev.  Win.  Ryerson  was  elected  the  second  time 
to  preside  over  the  former,  and  continued  to  do  so  until,  the 
Union  having  been  restored,  he  was  superseded  by  the 
1 


2  CASE,    AND 

President  provided  by  the  appointment  of  the  British  Con- 
ference. The  Rev.  James  Musgrove,  who  had  often 
served  the  Conference  in  a  subordinate  position  of  that 
kind,  was  appointed  principal  secretary,  a  man  m  every 
way  qualified  for  the  duties  of  the  post  and  worthy  of  the 
honor. 

2.  As  soon  as  the  Conference  was  organized  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Alder,  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood,  who  had  accompanied  him 
from  ISTew  Brunswick,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Harvard  were  in- 
troduced to  the  Conference  and  invited  to  take  part  in 
its  deliberations.  • 

3.  At  an  early  stage  of  the  proceedings,  the  report,  both 
written  and  oral,  of  the  late  delegates  to  the  British  Con- 
ference, the  Revs  J.  Ryerson  and  A.  Green,  was  given  to 
the  Conference,  accompanied  by  remarks  confirmatory  and 
explanatory  from  the  Rev.  Dr.  Alder.  The  deliberations 
on  this  subject  occupied  the  principal  part  of  the  first  week 
of^  the  Conference.  The  opponents  of  the  measure  wished 
to  make  the  election  of  Chairman  by  the  Conference,  instead 
of  being  appointed  by  the  President  on  the  advice  of  his 
Advisory  Council,  '  and  that  the  Chairman  should  be 
restricted  to  a  circuit,  on  which  he  should  be  dependant 
for  his  support,  instead  of  travelling  through  his  district, 
conditional  to  the  Union.  At  length  a  compromise  was 
made  by  the  British  representative  offering  to  accept  the 
stationing  proposition,  on  condition  that  the  appointing 
power  should  remain  where  it  was.  This  was  eargerly 
caught  at  and  accepted,  and  the  Union  measure  carried  by 
a  majority  of  eighty -eight,  against  eight  of  a  minority. 

4.  The  ratification  of  this  important  measure  was  followed 
by  the  concession  of  the  Presidential  Chair  on  the  part  of 
the  Rev.  William  Ryerson  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Alder,  the 
appointee  of  the  British  Conference,  and  by  the  introduction 
of   the    members    of  the    Western   Canada    District,     who 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  6 

expected  to  lemain  in  the  Province.  Then  followed  a 
season  of  mutual  congratulation  and  pleasing  reminiscences 
of  former  days  before  the  unhappy  estrangement.  Tears  of 
tenderness  and  gratitude  flowed  from  many  eyes,  in  which 
the  excellent  and  venerable  Case  was  observably  demon 
strative.  Next  succeeded  a  time  of  earnest  prayer,  in  which 
the  re-united  ranks  of  gospel-laborers  renewedly  consecrated 
themselves  to  their  Divine  Master  and  His  work.  Thus 
happily  terminated  Seven  years  of  fratricidal  rivalry  between 
those  who  were  essentially  one  and  should  have  been  always 
organically  so.  This  second  union,  although  not  carried  in 
the  Canada  Conference  with  the  same  apparent  unanimity  as 
the  first  one,  really  proved  vastly  more  harmonious  and 
complete. 

5.  The  principles,  or  articles  of  the  re-constructed  union, 
were  as  follows  : — 

(1)  "The  future  relations  of  the  English  and  Canadian 
Conferences  shall  be  the  same,  as  nearly  as  local  circum- 
stances will  admit,  as  has  heretofore  been  proposed  by  the 
Canada  Conference. 

1.  "  But  that  the  Chapel  and  other  Property  now  held  in 
trust  for  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  in  Canada,  remain 
exclusively  under  the  control  of  the  Conference  known  in 
Law  as  the  '  Conference  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church 
in  Canada ! '  and  that,  in  respect  to  those  Chapels  in 
Western  Canada,  the  deeds  of  which  require  that  the  pulpits 
should  be  supplied  by  the  British  Conference,  the  appoint- 
ments to  them  by  the  Canadian  Conference  be  subject  to  the 
sanction  of  the  English  Conference. 

2.  "  The  English  Conference  (according  to  the  former 
Articles  of  Union)  shall  annually  appoint  one  of  their  num- 
ber as  President  of  the  Canadian  Conference  ;  and,  (as  in 
Ireland)  a  Co-Delegate,  who  shall  be  associated  as  a  Member 
of  the   Stationing  Committee,  and  who  may  be  either  an 


CASE,    AND 


English  or  Canadian  Minister,  in  full  connexion  with  either 
Conference,  as  may,  from  time  to  time,  be  judged  most 
convenient.  If  the  appointed  President  cannot  remain  in 
Canada  during  the  whole  of  his  presidency,  his  Associate 
shall,  for  the  remainder  of  the  year,  take  his  place  in  Canada, 
and  superintend  the  work  of  God  there. 

3.  "  In  accordance  with  the  preceding  Resolution,  by  which 
it  is  provided,  that  the  future  relation  of  the  Canadian  Con- 
ference to  the  English  Conference,  shall  be,  as  nearly  as  may 
be,  similar  to  that  which  is  now  sustained  with  the  English 
Conference  by  the  Conference  in  Ireland,  (as  is  expressed  in 
the  Poll  Deed  prepared  by  Mr.  Wesley)  "  all,  and  every, 
the  acts,  admissions,  expulsions,  and  appointments,  whatso- 
ever," of  the  Canadian  Conference,  the  same  being  put  into 
writing,  and  signed  by  the  President,  or  by  the  Minister  ap- 
pointed as  his  associate,  and  Co-Delegate,  shall  be  annually 
laid  before  the  ensuing  English  Conference,  and,  when  con- 
Ijrmed  by  their  vote,  shall  be  deemed  taken,  and  be,  to  all 
intents  and  purposes,  valid  and  obligatory,  from  the 
respective  times  when  the  same  shall  have  been  ordered  or 
done  by  the  said  Canadian  Conference.  Provided  always 
that  all  appointments  to  Chapels  in  Canada,  the  Trusts  of 
which  require  that  the  appointments  of  Ministers  and 
Preachers  shall  be  made  by  the  Canadian  Conference,  shall 
be  of  sbsolute  authority  from  the  time  of  such  appointment 
by  that  Conference. 

4.  "  The  existing  Book  of  Discipline  shall  remain  in  force, 
with  the  exception  of  such  clauses  as  may  be  affected  by  these 
proposals  ;  but  subject  to  any  improvement  which  may,  from 
time  to  time,  be  mutually  agreed  upon  by  the  English  and 
Canadian  Conferences,  in  conformity  with  the  laws  of  the 
second  articles  of  the  former  Articles  of  Union  in  1833  •  and 
the  British  practice,  relating  to  the  Chairman  of  Districts 
being  stationed  on  Circuits  be  adopted,  and  that  the  Advisory 


HIS     COTEMPORAEIES.  0 

Committee  associated  with  the  President  in  the  appointment 
of  Chairman  be  chosen  by  the  several  District  Meetings, 
one  for  each,  either  by  nomination  or  by  ballot,  as  they 
shall  judge  most  suitable. 

5.  "  The  English  Conference  shall  (in  conformity  with  the 
former  Articles  of  Union)  appoint  a  General  Superintendent 
of  Missions,  who  shall  be,  ex-officio,  a  member  of  the  Station- 
ing Committee,  as  well  as  of  the  Canadian  Conference. 

6.  "  The  Missions  amongst  the  Indian  Tribes  and  new 
settlers,  which  are  now,  or  may  be  hereafter  established  in 
Canada  West,  shall  be  regarded  as  Missions  of  the  English 
Wesleyan  Missionary  Society,  under  the  following  regula- 
tions, viz  : — 

(1)  The  Parent  Committee  in  London  shall  determine  the 
amount  to  be  annually  applied  to  the  support  and  exten- 
sion of  Missions  ;  and  the  sum  granted  shall  be  distributed 
by  a  Committee  consisting  of  the  President  of  the  Confer- 
ence, the  Co-Delegate,  Superintendent  of  Missions,  the 
Chairman  of  Districts,  and  seven  other  persons  to  be  appointed 
by  the  Canadian  Conference.  A  standing  Board  or  Com- 
mittee, consisting  of  an  equal  number  of  Ministers  and 
Laymen,  shall  also  be  appointed  at  every  Conference,  which 
during  the  year,  shall  have  authority,  in  concurrence  with 
the  General  Suparintendent  of  Missions,  to  apply  any  means 
granted  by  the  Parent  Committee,  and  not  distributed  by 
the  Conference,  in  the  establishment  of  any  new  Mis- 
sions amongst  the  heathen,  and  in  otherwise  promoting 
the  Missionary  work. 

(•_')  The  Methodist  Missionary  Society  in  Western  Canada, 
under  the  sanction  of  the  Canadian  Conference,  shall  be  aux- 
iliary to  the  Wesleyan  Missionary  Society  in  London  ;  and 
all  sums  which  may  be  contributed  to  its  funds  shall  be  paid 
over  to  the  Treasurers  of  the  Parent  Society. 

(3)  The  Missionaries  of  the  Parent  Wesleyan  Missionary 


CASE,    AND 


Society  now  in  Canada,  shall  be  stationed  by  the  Cadadian 
Conference,  in  the  same  way  as  the  other  Ministers  of  that 
Conference. 

(4)  The  trial  of  any  Missionary  sent  out  from  England  to 
Canada,  in  full  connexion  with  the  English  Conference,  who 
may  at  any  time  be  accused  of  misconduct,  or  of  any  devia- 
tion from  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the  Methodist  Church, 
shall  be  left  with  the  District  Meetings  to  which  such  Mis- 
sionaries may  respectively  belong,  and  subsequently  to  the 
Canadian  Conference  ;  but  such  Missionaries  in  full  connexion 
with  the  English  Conference,  shall  have  the  right  of  ajjpeal 
to  that  Conference. 

(5)  The  Missionaries  who  may  now  be  in  full  connexion 
with  the  English  Conference,  or  any  other  Missionaries  here- 
after to  be  sent,  who  may  be  in  full  connexion  with  that 
Conference,  shall,  notwithstanding  the  Union  between  the 
English  and  Canadian  Conferences,  so  far  retain  their  con- 
nection with  the  former,  as  not  to  loose  any  claims,  privileges, 
or*  pecuniary  advantages,  which  may  belong  to  them  by 
virtue  of  their  relation  to  the  English  Conference. 

7.  "  The  foregoing  articles  constitute  the  basis  of  the  settle- 
ment and  Union,  the  following  are  the  means  by  which  the 
Wesleyan  Missionary  Committee  in  London  are  to  aid  in  the 
promotion  of  the  work  of  God  in  Canada  :  That  work  is  of  a 
twofold  character.  1.  It  embraces  purely  missionary  ground 
among  the  aborigines  and  others.  2.  Circuits  which  contain 
within  their  limits  new  and  destitute  settlements.  With  a 
view  of  assisting  these  different  classes,  it  is  proposed,  First, 
That  in  addition  to  the  sum  raised  in  Canada. West  by  the 
Auxiliary  Missionary  Society,  and  to  what  may  be  received 
from  other  sources,  the  Parent  Society  in  England  make  an 
annual  grant  to  the  Canadian  Conference  of  One  Thousand 
Pounds  for  missionary  purposes.  Secondly,  That  as  a  great 
number  of  Circuits  include  within  their  limits  new  and  desti- 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  7 

tute  settlements  inhabited  by  emigrants  of  so  poor  a  class  as 
to  be  unable  to  support  their  ministers,  the  sum  of  six 
hundred  pounds  be  annually  placed  at  the'  disposal  of  the 
Canadian  Conference;  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  on  the  work 
of  God  in  those  sections  of  the  country." 

6.  The  ministerial  ranks  of  the  Canada  Conference  were 
greatly  strengthened  by  the  consolidation  of  the  two  sections 
of  Wesleyan  Methodism  in  Canada  West.  The  Rev. 
Messrs.  William  Case,  William  Scott,  Douse,  Ephraim 
Evans,  Thomas  Fawcett,  Byers,  once  of  the  Conference, 
came  back  into  membership  with  the  body,  either  tempor- 
.  arily  or  permanently.  By  this  arrangement  there  was 
removed  to  England,  and  forever  from  the  Provinces,  one 
distinguished  individual,  who  had  occupied,  in  one  or  other 
of  the  two  Provinces  of  Canada,  very  influential  positions. 
This  was  the  Bev.  William  Martin  Harvard,  A.M.,  and 
afterwards  D.D.,  late  Chairman  of  the  Western  Canada 
District.  At  this  moment  we  have  not  the  means  of  tracing 
his  English  appointments  after  his  return,  but  we  are  sure 
they  were  very  important,  embracing  the  chairmanship  of 
an  important  district,  and  afterwards,  until  his  death,  the 
Moral  Governorship  of  the  Connexional  Theological  Institu- 
tion at  Richmond,  where  he  died  December  l§th,  1857, 
about  ten  years  from  the  time  of  his  leaving  Canada.  His 
English  brethren  say  of  him  :  "  His  character  was  distin- 
guished by  lowliness  and  sanctity — by  '  whatsoever  things 
are  pure,  whatsoever  things  are  lovely.'  He  was  faithful  in 
the  exercise  of  his  ministry ;  '  gentle  '  among  the  churches, 
'even  as  a  nurse  cherisheth  her  children;'  esteemed  and 
beloved  by  a  multitude  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic, 
as  well  as  by  the  students  who  composed  his  last  and 
most  interesting  charge.  The  standard  of  his  personal 
religion  was  a  high  one ;  and  the  affectionate  courtesies 
which  never  failed  to  adorn  his  external  deportment  flowed 


8  CASE,    AND 

from  supreme  love*  to  Christ,  the  Friend  and  Saviour  of  all. 
In  the  course  of  his  affliction,  deep  heart-searchings  wrought 
in  him  most  affecting  self-abasement  before  God;  but,  on  the 
atonement,  as  he  gratefully  declared,  he  found  '  firm  footing.' 
He  drew  strong  consolation  from  the  truths  he  had  long 
preached,  and  resigned  himself,  without  a  reluctant  wish  or 
care,  into  the  Divine  hands.  In  silent  patience,  and  holy, 
tranquil  hope,  he  still  endured  languor,  weariness,  and  pain, 
till  it  pleased  his  Lord  to  give  him  rest." 

7.  The  Rev.  Matthew  Richey,  A.M.,  was  appointed  to  fill 
the  newly-constituted  office  of  Co-Delegate,  or  Vice-President 
of  the  Conference ;  and  as  the  President,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Alder,  D.D.,  was  returning  to  England,  Mr.  Richey  was  the 
acting  President  throughout  the  year  1847-8,  upon  which 
we  are  entering,  travelling  at  large  throughout  the  Province. 

8.  And  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood,  who  has  been  already 
referred  to,  entered  the  Conference  as  Superintendent  of 
Missions,  being  thus  the  representative  of  British  Confer- 
ence interests  in  that  department,  and  proving,  in  his 
accession,  a  great  gain  to  the  Canada  Conference  itself,  on 
account  of  his  wisdom,  weight  of  character,  and  tendency  to 
sympathize  with  colonial  interests. 

9.  This  gentleman,  just  then  making  his  appearance  in  Can- 
adian Methodist  history,  deserves  a  somewhat  more  extended 
notice.     He  was  a  native  of  England,  born  in  Gainsborough, 

Lincolnshire,    on    the    12th    of    January,    1804 the    year 

memorable  for  the  formation  of  the  British  and  Foreign 
Bible  Society.  He  had  gone  out  into  the  itinerant  ministry 
so  early  as  1826,  but  had  performed  all  his  labors  out  of 
England.  His  first  year's  missionary  labor  was  bestowed 
on  the  West  Indies,  in  two  several  islands,  Montserrat  and 
St.  Kitts ;  and  the  intermediate  eighteen  years  between  his 
West  India  services  and  his  coming  to  Canada  West,  in  the 


HIS    C0TEMPORAR1ES.  » 

Province  of  New  Brunswick.  Excepting  Miramichi,  where 
he  was  stationed  two  years,  he  alternated  during  the  other 
sixteen  years  between  the  cities  of  Fredericton  and  St. 
Johns,  in  all  which  places  he  won  the  love  and  confidence 
of  all  who  knew  him.  This  was  particularly  true  of  his 
fellow-missionaries,  who  elected  him,  when  comparatively  a 
young  man,  upon  an  unexpected  vacancy,  to  the  chair  of  the 
district,  in  which  office  he  was  continued  by  the  British 
Conference  until  his  designation  by  the  Wesleyan  Missionary 
Committee  in  London  to  the  office  of  Superintendent  of 
Missions  in  connection  with  the  Canada  Conference. 

10.  As  to  personal  appearance,  even  at  the  date  when 
introduced  among  the  Canada  brethren,  he  is  well  repre- 
sented, so  far  as  facial  looks  are  concerned,  by  his  engraved 
portrait  in  the  Canada  Methodist  Magazine  for  July,  1875. 
He  was,  even  at  that  early  period,  stout,  broad,  and  heavy, 
although  well  proportioned — unless  it  causes  a  large  man  to 
be  out  of  proportion  to  have  a  massive  head, — while,  at  the 
same  time,  he  has  a  delicate  hand  and  a  small  foot. 

11.  He  impressed  all  his  friends  from  the  first  with  the 
average  completeness  of  his  talents  for  the  pulpit  and  the 
platform,  and  the  even  balance  of  his  character  on  all  sides, 
combining,  as  he  did,  a  vigorous  intellect  with  an  emotional 
nature — pastoral  adaptation,  with  a  capacity  for  connexional 
business.  He  was  destined  to  be  the  originator,  or  to  stand 
with  others  in  the  origination,  of  several  measures  of  vast 
importance  to  Colonial  Methodism,  all  of  which  come  into 
notice  in  the  course  of  this  histoiy. 

12.  Returning  to  the  subject  of  the  accession  of  laborers 
under  the  direction  of  the  Canada  Conferenqe  by  the  restor- 
ation of  the  union,  the  list  will  be  observed  to  be  lengthened 
by  five  other  ministers  in  full  standing,  who  had  Jiever 
before  been  connected  with  the  Conference — at  least  directly 

*1 


10  CASE,    AND 

— namely,    the    Revs.     Edmund    Botterell,    James    Booth . 
(often  mentioned),   Henry   Lanton,   Robert  Brooking,  and 
Samuel  Dwight  Bice. 

13.  Of  the  first  three  of  these  the  reader  has  been  more 
or  less  informed,  in  one  way  or  another ;  the  two  last  must 
now  receive  some  attention.  Robert  Brooking  was  by  birth 
and  education  an  Englishman,  and  went  out  into  the  minis- 
try under  the  direction  of  the  Wesleyan  Conference  and 
missionary  authorities  of  England  ;  but  the  whole  of  his 
effective  labors  had  been  expended  in  their  foreign  fields. 
Although  naturally  as  strong  and  healthy  as  he  was  large, 
his  health  had  been  impaired  by  no  less  than  six  years' 
missionary  labor  in  the  most  trying  of  all  climates,  West- 
ern Africa,  namely,  in  the  Cape  Coast  Castle,  Aecra, 
Ashanti,  and  Ananaboo  stations.  On  discontinuing,  for 
want  of  health,  he  came  to  Canada  at  his  own  instance,  and 
was  taken  up  by  Western  Canada  District,  and  by  that 
body  introduced  as  an  ordained  minister  to  the  Canada 
Conference.  As  all  his  previous  active  life  had  been 
devoted  to  missions  among  heathen,  under  the  direction  of 
the  English  Conference,  so  the  balance  of  his  after-life  was 
destined  to  be  devoted  to  similar  work  in  connection  with 
the  Colonial  Conference.  But  we  must  turn  to  one  whose 
accession  to  the  Conference  was  of  as  great  significancy  as  the 
man  of  distinguished  calibre  placed  in  connection  with  that 
body  by  this  union  measure. 

14.  We  are  referring  to  the  Bev.  Samuel  Dwight  Rice. 
This  minister  of  Christ,  because  of  his  essential  worth  and 
the  distinguished  position  he  was  destined  to  win  for 
himself  in  the  Canada  connection,  first  in  its  narrower 
and  afterwards  in  its  broader  acceptation,  deserves 
more  space  than  the  greater  number.  He,  like  his  friend 
Mr.  (now  Dr.)  Wood,  came  to  us  from^New  Brunswick. 
He  was  the   son   of  a   New  England  physician,   in  which 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  11 

country  Samuel  himself  was  born  ;  but  as  Dr.  Rice  settled 
in  New  Brunswick  (Woodstock)  while  his  children  were  yet 
young,  this  son  grew  up  with  British  ideas  very  strongly 
ingrained  within  him ;  although  the  higher  part  of  his  educa- 
tion  was  obtained  in  an  American    institution.     There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  he  pursued  an  optional  course,  and 
that  whatever  related   to  commerce   enlisted   the  supreme 
interest  of  his  eminently  practical  mind.     Whatever  may  be 
said  of  his  natural  birth,  British  ground  was  the  place  of 
his    spiritual    birth.        Fredericton,    the     capital    of    New 
Brunswick,  was  the  spot,  and  if    I  have  been  rightly  in- 
formed, his  friend,  the  Rev.  Arthur  McNutt,  was  the  instru- 
ment.    This  change  occurred  when  he  was  about  nineteen 
years  of   age.     In  two  short   years    from   the  time  of  his 
conversion  he  was  out  in  the  .itinerant  work,  proclaiming 
the  gospel  of  the  grace   of  God.     His   early  ministry  was 
bestowed  on  some  of  the  most  trying  circuits  in  the  Eastern 
Provinces,    and   that   ministry  was    characterized   by  zeal, 
laboriousness,  adventurous  daring,  and  great  success.     His 
appointments   before    coming   here    had   been    as   follows : 
Mirimachi,  St.  Johns  South,  Sackville  Wesleyan  Academy, 
and  St.  Johns  West,  in  which  last  he  remained  four  years ; 
giving  him,  in  all,  ten  years'  ministerial  experience  before 
coming  to  Canada  West.     What  mark  he  was  destined  to 
make  in  this  Province  the  future  pages  of  this  history  will 
show. 

15.  Brethren  John  Breden,  William  Andrews,  and  John 
Gundy  were  also  from  the  British  ranks,  who  were  received 
into  full  connexion  and  ordained  along  with  the  following 
Canadian  candidates  for  ministerial  orders,  namely  :  Abra- 
ham M.  Sickles  (Oneida  Indian),  John  Goodfellow,  William 
Ames,  Noble  Franklin  English,  Robert  Lochead,  Charles 
Taggart,  James  Greener,  and  Isaac  Brock  Aylsworth,  M.D., 


12  CASE,    AND 

albeit  that  Messrs.   Greener  and  Aylsworth  had  been  pre- 
viously ordained  for  special  purposes. 

16.  So,  also,  Samuel  Fear,  John  Hunt,  Charles  Turver, 
probationers  of  the  third  year  ;  David  Clappison,  a  two-jeaxs' 
man,  and  James  C.  Slater,  in  the  first  year  of  his  probation, 
all  were  from  the  British  section  of  Wesleyan  Methodism. 

17.  The  preachers  admitted  on  trial  were  three,  and  all 
came  out  under  the  auspices  of  the  Canadian  section  of 
Wesleyan  Methodism.  These  were  H.  Trickey,  W.  McGill, 
and  S.  S.  Nelles.  Henry  Trickey  was  personable,  genteel, 
well  connected,  and  apparently  pious ;  but  neither  piety 
nor  two  years'  training  at  Victoria  College  could  supply  the 
lack  of  what  God  had  left  out — an  "aptitude  for  preaching. 
If  the  published  minutes  are  any  guide  in  the  inquiry,  he 
was  never  more  than  a  student  at  Cobourg,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Conference. 

18.  William  McGill  was  a  young  man  of  twenty-three 
years  of  age,  having  been  born  in  1824.  He  was  a  native 
of  Cornwall,  but  of  parents  born  in  other  lands — his  father 
was  from  Ireland  and  his  mother  of  Huguenot  extraction, 
from  the  Island  of  Jersey.  He  was  instrumentally  brought 
to  God  and  introduced  into  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church 
by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Wesley  McCollum,  in  the  spring  oi 
1814.  The  following  year  he  received  a  license  to  exhort, 
signed  by  the  presiding  chairman  of  the  district,  the  Rev. 
John  Carroll.  Part  of  the  next  Conference  year  he  was 
employed  as  a  chairman's  supply,  to  assist  the  Revs.  W. 
Haw  and  V.  B.  Howard  on  the  extensive  Waterloo  Circuit. 
He  had  been  very  respectably  educated  in  early  life,  and  had 
followed  the  profession  of  school-teaching  for  several  years, 
in  which  he  gave  general  satisfaction.  He  was  light-com- 
plexioned,  sprightly  in  manners,  and  nearly  up  to  medium 
size.     His  natural  gifts  and  his  assiduity  in  study  combined 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  13 

to  make  him  more  than  an  average  preacher  in  point  of 
ability. 

19.  Samuel  S.  Nelles,  B.A.,  the  last  of  the  three  candi- 
dates, was  by  no  means  the  least.  At  the  time  of  his 
reception  on  trial  he  was  one  year  older  than  Mr.  McGiil, 
having  been  born  October  17th,  1823.  He  was  of  worthy 
Methodist  parents,  and  born  at  Mount  Pleasant,  near  Brant- 
ford.  His  great  natural  abilities  had  received  superior 
cultivation  and  exercise.  He  attended  the  Lewiston  Acad- 
emy, New  York,  in  1839-'40,  of  which  the  Rev.  Reuben 
Close  was  principal,  and  J.  G.  Saxe,  Esq.,  the  poet,  one  of 
the  tutors.  The  next  year  he  removed  to  the  Genesee 
Wesleyan  Seminary,  New  York,  where  he  was  converted 
and  joined  the  Methodist  Church,  of  which,  therefore,  he 
had  been  a  member  some  years  when  he  was  introduced  as  a 
probationer  into  the  Canada  Conference.  Two  years  after, 
he  matriculated  at  Victoria  College  (of  which  he  was  destined 
to  be  long  the  President),  under  the  principalship  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Ryerson,  where  he  remained  two  years,  and  was  distin- 
guished for  two  things — intellect  and  eloquence.  For  some 
reason  he  concluded  to  graduate  at  an  older  institution,  and 
went  to  Middletown  University,  Connecticut,  from  which 
he  received  his  degree  in  arts,  in  1846.  The  intermediate 
year  between  his  graduation  and  his  entrance  on  the  full 
ministry  of  the  "Word,  he  conducted  the  academy  at  New- 
burg,  of  this  Province,  and  was  recommended  to  the  work 
of  the  ministry  by  the  Napanee  Quarterly  Official  Meeting, 
under  the  Superintendency  of  the  Rev.  George  Goodson. 
We  have  reason  to  believe  that  he  had  exercised  his  preach- 
ing gifts  the  greater  part  of  his  religious  life.  In  person 
Mr.  Nelles  was  medium-sized,  agile,  and  dark-complexioned. 
Had  he  been  left  in  the  pastorate,  few  ministers  would  have 
equalled  him  as  a  pulpit  man. 

20.  There  was  no  occurrence  nor  casualty  to  reduce  the 


14  CASE,    AND 

number  of  Conference  members,  excepting  one.  Through 
the  mercy  of  Almighty  God,  none  had  been  called  away  by 
death,  none  had  been  expelled,  and  none  had  withdrawn  ; 
only  George  B.  Butcher  had  "  desisted  from  travelling,"  "on 
account  of  ill-health."  This  brother  remained  a  Methodist 
preacher  some  years  in  a  local  sphere,  and  then  accepted  a 
call  to  the  pastorship  of  a  Congregational  church,  and  after 
some  years  longer  was  called  to  his  final  account ;  but  I  am 
not  furnished  with  the  particulars  of  his  history  during  the 
latter  part  of  his  career. 

21.  I  shall  not  repeat  the  Stations — they  are  to  be  found 
in  the  General  Minutes  ;  but  it  may  just  be  remarked  that 
in  most  places  where  there  had  been  two  Wesleyan  societies, 
a  ministerial  representation  of  the  two  reunited  interests 
were  stationed  together,  if  it  had  been  found  possible  to 
effect  it.  Thus,  London  had  Messrs.  Botterell  and  Good- 
fellow  (albeit,  as  Mr.  Goodfellow  was  ill  and  unable  to  take 
his  work  for  the  first  half  of  the  year,  the  two  societies  and 
congregations  united  as  one  in  the  British  chapel).  Wood- 
stock had  Messrs.  Thomas  Fawcett  and  Cawthorne  ;  Gosfield 
and  Amhersiburgh  had  Messrs.  Phelps  and  Fear  ;  Simcoe  had 
Messrs.  Booth  and  Gray  ;  Sarnia  and  St.  Glair  had  Messrs. 
William  Scott  and  Axtell;  Hamilton  had  Messrs.  Douse 
and  Rattray ;  Toronto  (two  circuits),  had  Messrs.  E.  Evans 
and  Bice  in  the  West,  and  Messrs.  Carroll  and  Joseph  E. 
Ryerson  in  the  East  (albeit  Mr.  Ryerson  discontinuing  after 
some  time,  Mr.  Goodfellow  came  in  his  place,  instead  of 
going  to  London)  ;  Peterborough  had  Messrs.  McCullough 
and  Slater ;  Kingston  was  to  have  Messrs.  Lanton  and 
I.  B.  Howard,  and  they  were  to  labor  in  conjunction,  but 
Mr.  Squire  came  in  the  place  of  Mr.  Lanton,  and  the  con- 
gregation were  not  brought  together  during  that  year ; 
Bytown  had  Messrs.  Shepherd  and  Andrews,  and  Adelaide 
had   Mr.   Corson   and   Mr.   Constable,   a  chairman's  supply 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  15 

from  the  British  side  of  the  house,  who  ultimately  had  the 
time  allowed  during  which  he  had  labored  on  circuits  as  a 
hired  local  preacher.  Newmarket  was  similarly  circum- 
stanced, Mr.  William  Young  being  the  Superintendent,  and 
his  colleague,  a  Mr.  Sharp,  being  a  chairman's  supply  from 
among  the  British  employees.  He,  however,  fell  into 
immorality,  '  and  fled  in  the  fall  of  1847.  His  place  was 
supplied  for  the  balance  of  the  year,  Mr.  Young  says,  "  by 
William  "  {Thomas,  I  suspect)  "  Ross,  a  zealous  and  useful 
local  preacher,  who  presided  in  the  circuit."  I  saw  this 
brother  converted,  and  I  am  glad  to  give  him  a  niche  in  our 
temple  of  fame.  "The  Revs.  George  McRichey  and  James 
Scott  were  among  the  hundreds  converted  that  year."  The 
supply  for  the  "  one  wanted "  for  Norwood  was  a  local 
preacher  from  Picton,  a  Mr.  George  Gillespie,  who  did  not, 
however,  permanently  enter  the  work  ;  and  Brock  received 
the  appointment  of  Charles  W.  M.  Gilbert  and  a  Mr.  Wm. 
Gundy,  who  had  been  laboring  several  years  as  a  hired  local 
preacher  among  »the  British  missionaries,  whom  it  would 
have  been  wise  to  ordain  and  retain  in  the  united  Con- 
nexion. 

22.  The  number  of  districts  was  not  increased  by  the 
increase  of  laborers,  and  each  of  the  districts  was  placed  in 
charge  of  a  Canadian  minister,  who,  the  reader  has  been 
prepared  to  expect,  for  this  year  only,  was  to  travel  through 
his  district,  visiting  each  circuit  and  mission  at  least  once  a 
quarter.  The  brethren  in  charge  of  these  districts  were 
those  of  the  preceding  year :  the  Rev.  William  Ryerson,  for 
the  London  District ;  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson,  for  Hamilton ; 
the  Rev.  Henry  Wilkinson,  for  Toronto  ;  the  Rev.  Richard 
Jones,  for  Cobourg ;  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bevitt,  for  Kingston ; 
and  the  Rev.  James  Musgrove,  for  Bytown. 

23.  The  Rev.  George  R.  Sanderson  was  continued  in  the 
editorship  of  the  Guardian,    and  the  Rev.   Anson  Green 


16  CASE,    AND 

continued  as  Book  Steward ;  while  the  Rev.  Egerton  Ryer- 
son,  D.D.,  was  still  permitted  by  the  Conference  to  occupy 
the  position  of  Chief  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

24.  The  Rev.  William  Case,  whose  public  life  has  been 
made  the  central  channel  of  these  biographical  streams,  was 
continued  at  Alderville,  in  charge  of  the  Industrial  School, 
having  for  his  assistant,  to  look  after  the  outlying  appoint- 
ments connected  with  this  "mission,  a  young  Canadian 
preacher,  "William  Ames  by  name,  who  has  already  come  to 
view  in  the  course  of  this  work. 

25.  Although  there  was  an  increase  in  the  number  of 
laborers  by  the  absorption  of  the  members  of  the  previously 
existing  British  Wesleyan  District  for  Canada  West,  there 
was  no  augmentation  of  the  number  of  districts-  within  the 
bounds  of  the  Conference,  the  Indian  Missionary  District, 
which  existed  during  the  first  union,  not  being  continued  or 
resumed  under  the  second.  The  chairmen  were  all  Canada 
Conference  men,  and  for  the  current  year  their  itinerancy 
through  their  districts,  by  specific  enactment  of  the  Confer- 
ence of  1847,  continued  as  it  had  been  up  to  that  time,  with 
a  view  to  their  bringing  all  the  different  materials,  men,  and 
usages  into  harmony  under  the  newly-modified  discipline. 
And  I  am  of  opinion  that  there  are  few  men  of  experience 
in  the  body  who,  after  a  knowledge  of  all  the  facts  of  our 
subsequent  history,  and  after  mature  reflection,  are  not  of 
opinion  that  it  would  have  conduced  to  the  energy  of 
the  Connexion  and  to  uniformity  in  its  usage  and  disci- 
plinary action,  had  the  travelling  of  the  chairmen,  at  least 
in  a  modified  form,  continued  until  the  present  time. 

26.  The  labors  of  the  above-named  chairmen  were  most 
untiring,  and  very  influential  in  promoting  the  prosperity  of 
the  Church. 

27.  So,  likewise,  the  rank  and  file  of  this  militant  host 
in  conflict  with  sin  and  error,  in  the  several  districts  were 


HIS    COTEMPORAEIES.  17 

equally  indefatigable.  They  labored,  not  without  instances 
of  success,  in  various  localities.  This  will  appear  by  a  very 
abbreviated  summary  of  news,  gleaned  from  communications 
sent  to  the  Christian  Guardian  during  the  year  :  Adelaide 
Mission  projected  both  a  tea  meeting  and  a  camp  meeting 
early  in  the  Conference  year — the  first  to  promote  friendli- 
ness, the  latter  a  revival ;  and  subsequent  communications 
showed  that  their  labor  had  not  been  in  vain  in  the  Lord. 
Matilda  Circuit  began  the  year  with  accessions  to  the 
Church.  The  Chairman  of  the  Bytown  District,  at  an  early 
day  in  the  year,  reported  peace  and  prosperity.  News  from 
the  Rev.  Richard  Phelps  showed  that  the  union  worked  well 
in  the  Oosfield  Circuit.  There  was  good  news  from  the 
Coteau  Landing.  The  reunited  officials  on  the  Sidney  Circuit 
worked  well  under  the  pacifying  and  devoted  John  Black, 
and  conjointly  they  enjoyed  prosperity,  and  had  to  call  out  a 
third  preacher.  An  ingathering,  after  long  years  of  sterility, 
took  place  in  the  Hull  Circuit,  under  the  usually  successful 
George  Young.  The  Richmond  Circuit  had  reviving  times. 
The  Napanee,  under  the  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  George 
Goodson,  was  favored  with  an  outpouring.  There  were 
protracted  meetings  and  revivals  in  the  Peterborough  Circuit. 
Streetsville  erected  a  new  church.  After  hard  toiling,  they 
were  watered  from  on  high  in  the  Shannonville  and  Tyen- 
dinatja  Mission.  Bellevue,  under  Mr.  Geniley,  enjoyed  a 
revival.  There  was  good  news  from  Bath,  under  Mr.  Faw- 
cett.  A  number  of  souls  were  converted  in  the  Goderich 
Circuit.  Seventy  were  added  in  the  Colbome  Circuit,  under 
the  laborious  Morton.  There  were  great  prospects  of  good 
in  the  Wardsville  Mission.  Mr.  Madden  gave  favorable 
reports  from  St.  Andrews  Circuit.  Kingston  West  had  con- 
versions and  accessions ;  and  a  good  account  was  given  of 
the  York  Mission,  by  its  Superintendent,  at  the  close  of  the 
year. 


18  CASE,    AND 

28.  Still,  aftecall  these  favorable  communications,  there 
was  a  decrease  reported  in  the  aggregate  official  returns  at 
the  end  of  the  year,  taking  the  return  of  members  of  the 
two  sections  of  Wesleyan  Methodism,  who  were  understood 
to  have  embarked  in  the  united  Church.  The  return  of  the 
Canada  Conference  at  the  Session  of  1847  was  21,749  ;  that 
of  the  British  Conference  was  3,032 ;  the  two  returns  united 
were  24,781  ;  and  yet  the  whole  return  at  the  close  of  the 
year  1847-'48  was  only  23,842,  it  being  900  less  than  the 
Connexion  was  supposed  to  have  started  with.  Two  causes 
may  be  assigned  for  the  want  of  progress. 

29.  THe  first  impediment  the  united  Connexion  suffered 
was  from  the  hostility  of  the  public  press.  Several  of  the 
so-called  Liberal  journals  (this  applies  especially  to  the  Globe 
and  Examiner)  were  pleased  to  view  the  union  measure  as 
fraught  with  evil  consequences  to  the  cause  of  liberty  and 
reform  ;  and,  consequently,  poured  contumely  upon  it,  and 
endeavored  to  awaken  suspicion  among  the  membership  -and 
adherents  of  both  sections  of  the  denomination  against  its 
authorities — first,  in  the  minds  of  the  "Missionary"  section, 
and  afterwards  in  all — on  the  ground  of  what  was  repre- 
sented as  their  Tory  and  Church  and  State  leanings.  These 
representations  were  not  without  their  influence  both  on 
members  of  the  Church  and  those  without  its  pale,  and  went 
far  to  neutralize  the  labors  of  the  devoted  men  who  were 
striving  to  build  the  walls  of  the  Methodist  Zion  in  those 
troublous  times. 

30.  But  a  public  event,  which  occurred  during  the  year, 
gave  still  greater  occasion  for  complaining  and  agitation 
in  the  Province  and  Connexion  : — This  was  an  attempt  on 
the  part  of  the  Conservative  Government,  then  in  power, 
to  settle  the  long-agitated  University  question.  The  lands 
originally  set  apart  for  a  university,  colleges  in  different 
parts  of  the  country,  and  a  grammar  school  in  every  district 


HIS    C0TEMP0RAMES.  19 

had  increased  in  value  (although  there  had  been  an  unwar- 
ranted exchange  of  some  of  the  best  of  those  lands  for 
others  of  less  value)  so  as  to  yield  the  sum  of  £10,000 
($40,000)  a  year.  The  Bill  proposed  to  give  £3,000 
($12,000)  out  of  this  revenue,  with  King's  College  grounds 
and  buildings,  to  the  Episcopal  Church;  and  j£1,500 
($6,000)  to  each  of  the  following  colleges,  namely  :  Regio- 
polis  (Roman  Catholic),  Queen's  (Presbyterian),  and  Victoria 
(Wesleyan  Methodist),  funding  .what  was  expected  to  be  an 
annually  increasing  overplus  for  any  other  colleges,  denomi- 
national or  otherwise,  which  might  thereafter  arise.  A 
draft  of  the  Bill  was  sent  to  all  the  parties  concerned  for 
their  opinion  thereon,  and,' among  the  rest,  to  the  authorities 
of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church.  This  was  submitted 
by  them  to  the  Board  of  Victoria  College,  and  the  Confer- 
ence Special  Committee  was  called  together  and  the  measure 
was  submitted  to  them.  Both  of  these  bodies  accepted  the 
proposal  as  tolerably  fair,  and  as  comprising  probably  the 
best  terms  that  could  ever  be  secured.  The  Special  Com- 
mittee of  the  Conference  issued  a  circular,  signed  by  the 
Acting  President  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Conference,  inviting 
concurrence  on  the  part  of  the  members  and  adherents  of 
the  Church  throughout  the  Province*  Upon  this,  attempts 
were  made  by  the  papers  in  opposition  to  arouse  the  laity  of 
the  Connexion  against  the  measure  (as -one  of  Tory  party 
politics  and  unjust),  and  against  its  promoters,  especially 
the  Conference  and  authorities  of  the  Connexion.  The  Bill 
failed  to  command  a  majority  of  the  Legislature,  and  an 
appeal  was  made  to  the  country.  A  general  election  ensued, 
the  Ministry  was  defeated,  and  the  division  scheme  failed  to 
carry.  The  papers  referred  to,  and  their  upholders,  boldly 
asserted  that  the  action  of  the  Conference  authorities  was 
due  to  their  Tory  and  Church  and  State  leanings,  which 
went  to  prejudice  ministerial  influence  among  their  flocks 


20  CASE,    AND 

and  congregations*  Although  these  allegations  were  ably 
answered  by -the  editor  of  the  Connexional  organ  and  his 
contributors,  yet  obstacles  enough  were  created  to  greatly 
circumscribe  the  influence  and  progress  of  the  Church,  as  a 
whole.  This  was,  therefore,  another  instance  of  the  inci- 
dental evils,  at  least,  of  public  interference  in  public  ques- 
tions on  the  part  of  religious  denominations  in  their  Church 
capacity. 

31.  But  we  turn  to  a  brief  exhibit  of  affairs  among  the 
Wesleyan  brethren  in  Lower  Canada  District.  The  District 
Meeting,  held  at  the  commencement  of  this  ecclesiastical 
year,  began  Saturday,  the  8th  of  May,  1847,  in  the  City  of 
Montreal.  It  was  presided  over  by  the  Rev.  Matthew 
Richey,  A.M.,  and  the  Rev.  Matthew  Lang  was  elected 
Secretary.  Eighteen  brethren  were  present.  Hugh  Mont- 
gomery was  unable  to  attend,  through  indisposition.  In  the 
list  of  preachers  present  at  that  meeting,  we  observe  two 
names  new  to  the  North  American  work,  namely,  Henry  Cox 
and  Gifford  Dorey. 

32.  So  far  as  we  can  discern,  they  were  both  received  on 
trial  at  the  British  Conference  of  1846.  "Hill's  Alphabet- 
ical Arrangement "  places  the  former  at  Quebec  during  the 
year  1846-'47,  where  "one  was  asked"  at  the  beginning  of 
the  year.  The  latter,  by  the  same  authority,  is  placed  at 
St.  Johns,  1ST.  B.;  but  we  have  good  reason  for  believing  that 
appointment  to  have  been  changed,  and  that  Mr.  Dorey 
spent  that  year  in  Montreal.  The  probable  reason  for  the 
change  was  the  hope  that,  as  this  brother  was  a  native  of 
the  Channel  Islands,  and  his  vernacular  the  French  lan- 
guage, he  would  be  useful  among  the  French  Canadians  of 
the  Eastern  Frovince.  But  we  have  reason  to  believe  that, 
what  with  obstructions  to  the  commencement  of  the  French 
work  at  that  time,  and  Mr.  Dorey's  own  predilections  for  the 
English    department   (for  he  was  equally    as    good    in  the 


HIS   COTEMPORAEIES.  21 

English  as  French),  that  he  never  accomplished  much,  if 
anything,  among  the  French  Canadians.  These  two  breth- 
ren are  returned  in  the  MS.  Minutes  of  the  District  Meeting 
as  having  labored  one  year.  They  were  men  of  promise — 
Dorey,  perhaps,  the  more  accurate  and  painstaking ;  but 
Cox  had  the  more  genius  and  extempore  talent.  His  fine 
person  and  free  manner  in  the  pulpit,  amounting  to  a  sort  of 
abandon,  made  him  quite  run  after  in  some  of  the  cities  in 
which  he  was  stationed. 

33.  The  list  of  stations  for  the  year  1847-'48,  as  amended 
from  the  prospective  plan  of  the  British  Conference,  was  as 
follows  : — 

Montreal. — Matthew   Bichey,   A.M.,  Charles   Churchill, 
George  H.  Davis ;  Bobert  L.  Lusher,  supernumerary. 
Quebec. — Ephraim  Evans,  Henry  Cox. 
Three  Rivers. — Alexander  McLeod. 
WesleyviUe. — Bufus  A.  Flanders. 
St.  Johns  and  Ghamhly. — James  Brock,  Gifford  Dorey. 
Russeltown. — Hugh  Montgomery. 
Odelltown. — Matthew  Lang. 
ClarenceviUe. — Thomas  Campbell. 
St.  Armands. — William  E.  Shenstone. 
Dunham. — John  Tomkins. 
Shefford. — Malcolm  McDonald. 
Stanstead. — Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 
Coinpton  and  Hatley. — Benjamin  Slight. 
Sherbrooke. — John  Douglas. 
Melbourne. — John  Borland. 
New  Ireland. — One  wanted. 

34.  But  even  this  modified  list  must  have  undergone  still 
further  modification  after  the  Session  of  the  Upper  Canada 
Conference,  at  which  the  union  was  restored.  At  that  Con- 
ference Mr.  Evans  was  stationed  in  Toronto,  instead  of 
Quebec.     If  the  list  of  printed  stations  is  any  clue,   the 


22  CASE,    AND 

Rev.  John  C.  Dwridson  was  sent  to  Quebec,  instead  of  Mr. 
Evans. 

35.  The  only  authentic  information  accessible  to  the 
writer  relative  to  the  labors  of  the  year  in  this  section  of 
the  work,  is  found  in  the  MS.  journal  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin 
Slight,  appointed  to  Compton  and  Hatley.  The  extract 
about  to  be  furnished  is  illustrative  of  the  difficulties  attend- 
ing the  endeavor  to  plant  and  establish  Methodism  in  its 
integrity  in  Canada  East,  together  with  Mr.  Slight's  con- 
scientious and  painstaking  endeavors  to  accomplish  it — 
endeavors,  it  is  to  be  feared,  which  had  not  characterized 
every  one  who  preceded  him.     The  excerpt  is  as  follows  : — 

36.  "June  13th,  1847  (Sunday).— This  is  my  birthday. 
I  am  to-day  forty-nine  years  of  age.  When  I  was  twenty- 
one  years  of  age  (that  falling  also  on  Sunday),  I  was 
appointed  on  the  printed  plan  to  iweach  0n  the  Bregg  Cir- 
cuit. I  have  been,  therefore,  twenty-eight  years  a  preacher. 
Oh,  how  little  have  I  done  !  How  unprofitable  I  have  been  ! 
Preached,  including  this  day,  three  thousand  five  hundred 
and  ninety-seven  times. 

37.  "June  18th.  I  have  marked  the  procedure  of  some  of  our 
most  useful  preachers  and  revivalists  in  England,  and  I  have 
always  found  it  to  consist  in  stirring  up  the  zeal  and  energies 
of  the  pious  and  working  portion  of  the  church  ;  thus  to 
engage  all  in  co-operation,  to  have  'all  at  it,  and  always  at  it.' 
By  this  means  something  may  be  done  to  advantage.  But 
where  you  can  have  no  co-operation  by  the  church,  one  man, 
however  earnest  and  desirous  to  save  the  souls  of  men,  can 
do  but  little.  He  visits  a  place  once  in  two  weeks,  preaches, 
&c,  and  passes  on  to  another,  and  without  this  co-operation, 
all  the  improvements  he  makes  evaporates  before  he  comes 
around  again.  Where  we  have  efficient  class4eaders,  local 
preachers,  and  prayer-leaders,  to  engage  in  the  work,  they 
keep  up  the  spirit,  talk  with,  and  invite  those  who  may  have 


HIS    COTEMPOBABIES.  23 

received  any  good  impressions,  and  thus  keep  all  that  is 
gained,  and  bring  them  forward.  I  have  been  so  impressed 
with  this,  that  it  has  been  a  maxim  with  me  not  to  stay  on 
a  circuit  where  the  members  are  not  disposed  to  work  and 
help  on  the  cause.  On  this  account  I  left  St.  Johns  at  the 
end  of  two  years.  And  on  this  account,  I  am  beginning  to 
think  I  did  wrong  in  returning  to  this  circuit  a  second  year. 
Of  all  the  circuits  I  have  been  on,  surely  this  is  the  most  de- 
ficient. Here  we  can  have  no  regular  church  organization.  We 
have  scarcely  any  class-meetings,  to  which  to  invite  any  who 
are  impressed  with  the  necessity  of  working  out  their  soul's 
salvation.  I  go  around  and  preach,  impressions  I  know  are 
made  ;  but  they  are  either  lost  again,  or  the  subjects  of  them 
are  picked  up  by  the  Baptists,  who  have  twelve  ministers 
operating  within  the  space  of  country  I  alone  occupy,  and 
whose  church  members  are  ever  ready  to  lay  hold  of  any 
advantage  they  perceive.  I  feel  I  cannot,  in  twelve  different 
directions,  do  anything ;  I  cannot  induce  any,  or  scarcely 
any,  to  help  on  the  cause.  I  can  only  cry  to  God  to  take  the 
matter  into  His  own  hands,  and  to  try  to  be  content  to  drag 
through  the  year  without  any  efficiency." 

38.  May  (1848).  The  following  is  a  short  abstract  of  the 
report  I  returned  to  the  District  Meeting  concerning  the  state 
of  this  circuit : — 

"  This  circuit  has  improved  in  several  respects,  the  congre- 
gations are  better.  Some  have  manifested  religious  impres- 
sions, and  a  few  have  been  gathered  into  the  church. 
There  have  been  eight  removals  from  the  circuit,  and  but 
two  into  it.  The  present  number  of  members  is  ninety -nine, 
and  one  on  trial.  Last  year  the  number  was  eighty-three, 
being  an  increase  of  sixteen.  I  have  left  twenty  persons  on 
the  book,  who  are  not  returned  in  this  number,  as  a  reserve 
for  better  times ;  if  they  should  return  to  duty,  and 
attendance  on  the  ordinances  of  the  church,"  well. 


24  CASE,    AND 

39.  The  opinions  of  Mr.  Slight  are  worthy  to  be  written 
in  letters  of  gold.  If  our  class-meetings  and  society  organiza- 
tion are  permitted  to  fall  into  decay ;  and  if  we  fail  to  raise 
up  a  staff  of  lay  and  local  workers  to  aid  the  minister  and 
to  stand  in  the  gap  in  his  absence,  Methodism  will  be  scarcely 
as  efficient  as  many  other  forms  of  Protestant  Christianity, 
as  almost  all  have  some  other  method  of  conserving  the 
Church's  life,  corresponding  to  those  we  are  suffering  to  fall 
into  desuetude,  without  any  compensating  agency  in  then- 
place.  May  all  the  watchmen  on  the  walls  of  our  Zion 
sound  the  alarm,  and  join  hands  in  preserving  the  vital 
institutions  of  our  heaven-originated  Methodism.  The 
journalist  records  one  incident  interesting  to  every  lover  of 
Methodist  history,  namely,  the  happy  death  of  a 
Mr.  Philip  Embury,  the  grandson  of  the  apostle  of 
Methodism  to  N~ew  York  and  America  in  general. 

40.  After  the  most  strenous  efforts  of  the  Lower  Canada 
Wesleyan  ministers,  of  which,  it  is  presumed,  Mr.  Slight's 
labors  were  an  average  example,  no  increase  was  reported 
at  the  end  of  the  year,  but  a  slight  decrease  of  fourteen  ;  and, 
unhappily,  this  was  a  second  consecutive  falling  off  for  the 
Province.  The  total  return  of  members  stood  at  3,909. 
The  total  for  the  two  Canadas  at  37,751. 

1848-49. 

41.  The  Conference  of  1848  was  noticeable  for  having 
been  presided  over,  in  the  appointee  of  the  British 
Conference,  by  one  of  the  ablest  who  ever  sat  in  its  presi- 
dential chair,  or  indeed  that  of  the  English  Conference  either, 
which  he  had  also  filled  seven  years  before.  This  was  the  vener- 
able James  Dixon,  D.D.,  an  aged,  white-haired  gentleman  of 
sixty  years,  who  had  been  in  the  "Wesleyan  ministry  thirty-six 
years.  When  he  assumed  the  chair  of  the  Canadian  Confer- 
ence he  apprised  that  venerable  body  that  he  would  need 


HIS   C0TE1IP0EARIES,  25 

their  forbearance,  as  he  "-was  not  considered  a  business 
man  in  his  own  country."  He  was  no  doubt  one  of  those 
book-loving,  reflective  men  who  do  not  fussily  affect  the 
details  of  himself,  but  who  had  a  right  judgment  of  all 
practical  matters  when  brought  before  him.  The  Conference 
found  him  wise,  deliberate,  and  capable  ;  and  although  blunt, 
and  sometimes  a  little  wanting  in  patience,  simple-minded, 
fair,  and  honest  to  a  great  degreee.  As  to  his  preaching, 
eschewing  11  prettinesses,  it  was  fresh,  original,  profound, 
unctious,  and  scintillated  with  the  coruscations  of  true  genius ; 
also,  gloriously  independent  of  paltry  pulpit  convention- 
alisisms.  But  we  must  allow  his  brethren,  who  knew  him 
best,  to  speak  of  him,  as  they  do  in  his  Conference  obituary, 
which  is  found  much  fuller  than  is  the  wont  of  the  British 
Conference  in  such  cases,  unless  upon  the  character  of  very 
remarkable  men.  He  was  born  in  Castle  Dornington, 
October  28th,  1788.  We  adopt  the  obituary  account : — 
42.  "  He  became  an  earnest  Methodist  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  and  after  four  years  spent  in  the  cultivation  of  his 
mind  and  the  study  of  theology,  was  sent  into  the  ministry 
by  the  Conference  of  1812.  It  seemed  likely  at  the  first  that 
his  career  would  be  that  of  a  missionary,  but  a  short  trial  in 
Gibraltar  proved,  to  his  deep  regret,  that  his  constitution 
was  unsuitable  to  a  foreign  climate.  Accordingly  he  returned 
to  England,  and  was  permitted,  with  almost  unvarying  health 
and  vigor,  to  discharge,  for  more  than  fifty  years,  the  duties 
of  a  Christian  minister.  To  the  sacred  office  he  brought  a 
remarkable  combination  of  endowments.  His  devotion  to 
the  Saviour  and  the  spread  of  His  kingdom  was  of  that 
strong  and  tranquil  kind  which  is  independent  of  external 
circumstances,  and  unaffected  alike  by  prosperity  or  ad- 
versity. It  was  much  and  severely  tried,  but  never  failed. 
He  gave  to  the  service  of  the  Gospel  a  vigorous  mind,  in  the 
constitution  of  which  the  finest  qualities  were  blended.    His 


26  CASE,   AND 

reasoning  power  was  great,  his  fancy  was  rich,  and  his 
faculty  of  utterance  ready  and  copious  beyond  that  of  most 
men.  The  first  determinate  bent  of  his  intellectual  discipline 
had  been  theological,  and  in  most  •  branches  of  English 
theology  he  was  well  read.  But  the  culture  of  his  mind  was 
not  limited  to  his  vocation  ;  he  was  a  general  reader,  and  a 
diligent  student  of  the  course  of  human  affairs  and  of  the 
depths  of  the  human  mind.  His  earlier  ministry,  thoughuseful 
and  effective  in  its  sphere,  scarcely  gave  promise  of  his  sub- 
sequent eminence.  But  in  due  time  he  became  one  of  the 
most  able  preachers  and  speakers  of  the  day.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  great  power  in  the  pulpit,  where  he  handled  with 
equal  vigor  and  success  the  terrors  of  the  convincing  law, 
the  promises  of  the  Gospel,  and  the  obligations  of  the  re- 
generate life.  He  proclaimed  the  catholic,  evangelical  truth 
of  the  New  Testament  under  all  its  aspects  ;  he  declared  the 
whole  counsel  of  God.'  But  he  was  emphatically  a  Methodist 
p*reacher ;  he  exhibited  in  his  ministry  all  those  character- 
istics which  honorably  distinguish  that  class  of  men ;  and  it 
was  his  happiness  to  rejoice  in  the  success  with  which  God 
had  been  pleased  to  crown  their  labors.  Dr.  Dixon  was 
also  extraordinarily  effective  on  the  platform,  where  his  robust 
eloquence,  inspired  by  such  themes  as  the  claims  of  the 
heathen  world  and  the  wrongs  of  the  slave,  and  having  at 
his  command  a  voice  of  wonderful  compass  and  delicacy, 
produced  effects,  upon  a  far  wider  public  than  his  own  com- 
munity, which  will  not  soon  be  forgotten.  For  a  season  he 
was,  both  in  the  pulpit  and  on  the  platform,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  in  Methodism.  By  degrees  he  retired,  how- 
ever, from  other  spheres  of  usefulness  and  restricted  himself 
to  the  ministry  of  the  Word.  Towards  the  close  that 
ministry  became  more  and  more  practical,  and  tender,  and 
searching.  His  eloquence  ceased  from  the  swelling 
periods  and  broader   effects,  and  became  sententious,  racy 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  27 

and  epigrammatic  ;  to  the  last  full  of  originality  and  fertility 
of  conception,  and  rich  in  that  quaint  beauty  which  never 
fails  to  enchain  the  hearer.  The  pastoral  outpourings  of  his 
later  years  were,  in  their  own  order,  as  memorable  as  the 
mighty  appeals  of  his  middle  age ! 

43.  Dr.  Dixon  had  attended  the  American  General  Con- 
ference in  the  preceding  May  as  the  representative  of  the 
British  Conference,  along  with  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson,  who 
represented  the  Canada  Conference,  where  the  Doctor  won 
golden  opinions.  He  had  made  the  acquaintance  of  Bishop 
Soule,  when  representing  the  American  Church  to  the  British 
Conference  many  years  before,  and  although  the  Bishop  was 
now  severed  from  his  Northern  brethren  and  the  Episcopos 
of  a  Church  not  officially  recognised  by  either  of  the  older 
bodies,  he  had  made  his  English  friends  a  visit  at  Philadel- 
phia, the  seat  of  the  General  Conference,  and  the  two 
renewed  the  pleasing  intercourse  of  other  years.  These  two 
great  men  had  evidently  a  great  affinity  for  each  other, 
and  possessed  many  things  in  common.  They  were  both 
strong,  sizable,  grave,  dignified  men,  characterized  by  a  sort 
of  oracular  utterance  in  private,  and  a  stately,  measured 
eloquence  in  the  pulpit.  Dr.  Dixon  published  on  his  return 
to  England  a  very  interesting  account  of  his  American  tour, 
in  which  he  showed  himself  a  shrewd  observer. 

44.  The  President  returned  to  England  soon  after  the 
Conference  was  over,  and  continued  to  serve  the  British  Con- 
nexion in  various  ways,  as  he  had  done  before.  "  He  was 
at  his  post,"  says  the  obituary,  "  in  the  forefront  of  its  great 
enterprises,  entirely  faithful  to  its  constitutional  principles, 
and  at  the  same  time  ready  to  join  any  sound  progressive 
movement."  "  Towards  the  end  of  his  course,  he  was  smitten 
with  blindness,  partial  at  first,  but  slowly  and  surely  becom- 
ing total.  During  nine  years  he  still  preached  and 
edified  the  people,  both  publicly  and  in  his  own  house.     His 


28  CASE,    AND 

#  - 

mind  retained  its  vigour  to  the  last ;  and  his  interest  in  the 
affairs  of  his  own  community  was  unabated.  In  many/ways 
he  expressed  his  zeal  for  its  welfare,  losing  no  opportunity  of 
urging  on  his  successors  in  the  ministry -the  necessity  of 
holding  firmly  to  their  early  principles.  His  end  was  peace. 
His  long  season  of  seclusion  from  the  outer  world  was  spent 
in  communion  with  his  Saviour,  and  preparation  for  his  de- 
parture. "I  sit  here  in  my  blindness,"  he  said,  "and  they 
read  parts  of  the  Bible  to  me :  the  words  seem  to  be  raised  and 
luminous.  Dwelling  much  as  I  do  alone,  I  have  been 
enabled  to  obtain  views  of  God  such  as  I  never  had ;  of  God 
in  His  unity,  His  fulness  of  divine  perfection,  God  in  the 
Trinity  of  Persons,  in' the  relation  of.  the  Persons  to  each  ■ 
other,  and  also  in  their  relations  to  the  world  and  to  me  in 
the  mediatorial  scheme.  Then  as  to  original  sin,  I  rieyer 
saw  its  extent  and  loathsomeness  as  I  have  seen,  it  in  this 
arm-chair.  And  these  two  extremes — the  Holy  God  and  the 
fallen  state  of  man— have  prepared  me  to  see  the  redemption 
wrought  out  by  Christ  in  its  aspect  of  imputation  ;  oh  thik 
ground  alone  I  look  for  the  mercy  of  God  and  hope  to  enter 
heaven."  These  sum  up  the  labors  of  his  life  and  his  hope 
in  death.  His  departure  was  sudden,  when  the  time  came 
"  Sleep  and  death  were  literally  one."  "  He  died  at  Brad- 
ford, December  28th,  1871."  "  The  Methodist  community 
will  always  rank  him  as  having  been  amongst  its  foremost 
men." 

45.  The  Rev.  Mathew  Rickey,  who  had  received  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  during  the  preceding  Conference 
year,  was  re-appointed  co-delegate  by  the  British  Conference  ; 
and  having  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  Acting  President 
for  the  prospective  year,  the  Conference  invited  him  to 
travel  at  large  through  the  Connexion,  which  he  proposed %o 
do,  purchasing  a  horse  and  chaise  for  that  purpose  ;  and  if 
we  may  anticipate,  his  labors  were  truly  apostolic  and  hffi 


HIS    COTEMPORA.RIES.  29 

influence  on  the  Connexion  of  a  truely  episcopal  character. 
But  we  must  return  to  the  doings  of  the  Conference. 

46.  The  Conference  sat  in  Belleville,  and  began  its  ses- 
sions on  the  7th  of  June.  The  Rev.  Conrad  Vandusen  was 
elected  Secretary,  and  performed  his  duty  efficiently.  Six 
brethren  were  received  into  full  connexion,  three  of  whom 
had  gone  into  the  work  under  British  auspices,  and  the 
others  under  Canadian  :  John  Hunt,  Charles  Turner,  and 
Samuel  Fear  were  from  the  British  side,  and  Abraham  Day- 
man, John  Howes,  and  Erastus  Hurlburt  from  the 
Canadian. 

47.  Five  were  now  received  on  trial,  none  of  whom, 
although  some  of  them  may  have  labored  under  a  chairman, 
have  ever  come  under  the  notice  of  the  reader  before.  These 
brethren  were  John  G.  Laird,  James  Gooderham,  John 
English,  Noble  Armstrong,  and  Lewis  Morton.  The  three 
last  of  them  had  each  a  brother  in  the  ministry,  whose 
ability  and  fidelity  might  have  augured  well  for  those  now 
coming  into  the  work.  But  three  out  of  the  five  candidates 
were,  from  one  cause  and  other,  not  destined  to  continue 
long  in  the  itinerant  ministry  of  the  Canada  Church.  We 
notice  them  in  the  order  in  which  they  stand  in  the 
Minutes. 

48.  John  (!■  Laird  was  a  native  of  Ireland  who  had  ar- 
rived in  Canada  during  the  preceding  year.  He  was  bom  in 
Fermanagh  in  1823,  so  that  at  the  time  of  his  reception  on 
trial  he  was  about  twenty-five  years  of  age.  He  was  sizable 
and  comely  enough.  He  was  trained  for  the  work  of  a 
National  School  teacher  in  the  Normal  School,  Dublin,  and 
followed  the  occupation  of  teaching  in  his  native  land.  He 
was  converted,  and  connected  himself  with  Wesleyan 
Methodism,  in  his  fourteenth  year.  He  had  filled  the  offices 
of  leader,  and  local  preacher  for  several  years  when  he  emi- 
grated.    No  description  would  give  any  one  an  exact  idea  of 


30  CASE,    AND 

• 

his  preaching  who  had  not  heard  him  ;  but  we  might  say  it 
was  richly  scriptural,  above  mediocrity,  and  very  satisfying 
to  those  who  loved  the  truth.  He  was  destined  to  make  a 
faithful  and  successful  laborer. 

49.  James  Gooderham  was  the  next.  He  was  born  in 
Scole,  Norfolk,  England,  but  came  with  his  highly  respect- 
able parents  to  Toronto  in  very  early  life.  They  were  of  the 
Church  of  England,  and  otherwise  than  prepossessed  in 
favor  of  Methodism  ;  nevertheless,  being  converted  about  the 
age  of  seventeen,  he  united  himself  to  the  British  Wesleyan 
Methodist  Society,  very  much  to  the  dissatisfaction  of  his 
friends,  which,  in  many  ways,  became  a  source  of  trial  to 
him.  He  remained  faithful  to  his  convictions,  however; 
gave  himself  up  to  most  assiduous  study  of  every  branch  of 
knowledge  that  had  immediate  relation  to  the  Christian 
ministry,  and  became  a  very  acceptable  and  useful  local 
preacher.  His  preparations  for  the  pulpit  were  careful,  and 
bis  ministrations  most  satisfactory.  He  received  the  suf- 
frages of  the  Toronto  West  Quarterly  Meeting,  and  was 
readily  accepted  by  the  Conference,  at  the  age  of  twenty 
three. 

50.  John  English  was  nearly  about  the  age  of  the  two 
last  brethren,  the  son  of  respectable,  pious  Methodist 
parents  in  the  town,  or  city,  of  London.  He  was  the  subject  of 
an  early  conversion,  and  exhibited  a  blameless  course  of 
Christian  character  thenceforward.  Being  persuaded  that 
he  was  called  to  preach,  he  spent  a  considerable  time  at 
Victoria  College  in  preparation  for  his  work.  Scarcely 
equal  to  his  brother,  Noble  Franklin,  in  point  of  mind  and 
scholarship,  he  was,  perhaps,  even  more  than  his  equal  in 
zeal  and  tender  feeling  for  souls.  His  pathos  gave  him 
persuasiveness. 

51.  The  remaining  two  candidates,  Noble  Armstrong  and 
Lewis  Morton,  may  be  disposed  of  together.     They  were  both 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  31 

of  intelligently  pious  Irish  parentage,  Armstrong  certainly 
born  in  Ireland, — perhaps  Morton  in  Canada.  They  both 
came  out  from  the  neighborhood  of  the  Ottawa  River, 
Armstrong  from  Clarendon,  Morton  from  Goulburn.  From 
all  we  have  learned,  they  were  of  average  promise,  but  as 
they  were  both  destined  to  leave  the  Canadian  ministry 
before  their  probation  was  ended,  we  are  not  furnished,  at  this 
stage  of  our  writing,  with  further  particulars  concerning  them. 

52.  Fortunately  none  of  the  Conference  proper  had  been 
summoned  from  their  posts  by  death,  but  the  Conference 
thought  well  to  record  in  answer  to  the  usual  question, 
"Who  have  died?"  a  testimonial  to  the  character  and 
labors  of  the  Rev.  James  Evaiis,  whom  the  Canada  Confer- 
ence had  lent  to  the  British  Conference  eight  years  before,  to 
introduce  and  superintend  their  missions  within  the  Hudson. 
Bay  Territory,  and  who  had  died  suddenly,  November,  1846. 
The  answer  to  the  above  question,  from  the  Minutes  of  the 
British  Conference,  was  as  follows  : — 

"  James  Evans  ;  a  missionary  of  remarkable  ability  and 
zeal,  and  of  great  usefulness  among  the  North  American 
Indians.  His  success  among  the  aborigines  of  Canada  led  to 
his  appointment  as  General  Superintendent  of  the  recently- 
formed  missions  in  the  Hudson  Bay  Territory.  To  his 
mental  vigor  and  indomitable  perseverance,  the  Indians  are 
indebted  for  many  advantages  :  among  these  is  a  written 
and  printed  character,  suited  to  their  language,  of  which  Mr. 
Evans  was  the  inventor.  Many  were  the  afflictions  and 
trials  he  had  to  endure  :  these  issued  in  a  failure  of  health, 
which  rendered  his  return  home  desirable,  but  the  results 
were  not  favorable.  He  died  suddenly  at  Keilby,  in  Lin- 
colnshire, on  the  23rd  of  November,  1846,  at  the  house  of  a 
friend,  after  attending  a  missionary  meeting,  at  which  his 
statements  had  excited  great  interest.  He  entered  upon  the 
missionary  work  in  1834." 


32  CASE,   AND 

53.  Three  who  tad  stood  as  efficient  laborersjn  theorist  of 
appointments  at  the  previous  Conference  were  discontinued, 
and  had  their  ministerial  authority  cancelled,  at  this  Confer- 
ence. One  of  these  was  "  excluded  from  the  Church  .for 
intemperance ;  another  had  become  dissatisfied  with  the 
Church  in  its  renewed  relation  to  the  British  Conference ; 
and  the  third,  in  a  fit  of  despondency  at  a  long  move,  with' 
slender  means  to  defray  the  expenses  of  it,  had  dropped  out 
of  the  itinerant  work.  The  fallen  brother  never  regained 
his  ministerial  standing,,  although,  I  think  I  learned,  he 
recovered  himself  from  the  habit  into  which  he  had  fallen ; 
the  second  became  (and  is  now)  a  Congregational  minister, 
and  the  third  battled  on  in  secular  life  for  some  years,  and 
was  drowned  in  some  pioneering  enterprise  at  the  west.  Our 
first  case  was  that  of  poor  John  Gundy ;  the  second,  that  of 
the  Rev.  Solomon  Snider,  who,  I  have  no  doubt,  left  very 
conscientiously;  and  the  last,  that  of  the  once-laborious  and 
much-regretted  Matthew  Connor. 

54.  For  want  of  health  at  the  time,  an  energetic  and 
successful  preacher,  Bro.  Robert  Darlington,  took  a  supernu- 
merary relation  at  this  Conference,  which  relation  he  sustains 
until  this  day.  Since  then,  "  his  own  hands  have  ministered 
to  his  necessities,"  while  he  has  still,  to  a  large  extent, 
"  preached  the  gospel  of  God,"  and  preached  it  "  freely." 

55.  The  Connexional  staff  (not  of  the  pastorate)  in  Toronto 
this  year  was  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richey,  Co-Delegate  ;  Rev.  Enoch 
Wood,  Superintendent  of  Missions ;  Rev.  Anson  Green, 
Book  -Steward ;  Rev.  G.  R.  Sanderson,  Editor,  who  also  had 
the  honor  of  being  elected  Secretary  of  the  Conference. 

56.  We  will  not  take  up  the  reader's  time  in  reproducing 
such  information  relative  to  the  stations  as  he  can  find  else- 
where, but  simply  run  through  them,  and  supplement  the 
omissions  of  the  Minutes.  The  list  of  stations  in  the  Toronto 
District  will  show  the  reader  that  a  name,  with  which  he  had 


HIS   COTEMPOKARIES.  33 

become  acquainted  in  the  Canada  East  District,  has  been 
I  transferred  to  the  Canada  Conference,  and  placed  as  the 
;  colleague  of  the  Rev.  S.  D.  Rice,  among  the  late  British 
Wesleyan  people  of  the  West  Toronto  Circuit,  its  last  year's 
Superintendent,  the  Rev.  Ephraim  Evans,  having  been 
recalled  by  the  British  Conference,  of  which  he  was  a  mem- 
ber, and  sent  to  Halifax  to  remain  in  the  Eastern  Provinces 
for  ten  or  eleven  years  as  pastor  and  chairman  in  two  seve- 
ral districts,  and  as  Governor  and  Chaplain  of  the  Wesleyan 
rcademy  at  Mount  Allison.  This  was  the  Rev.  G.  H.  Davis. 
57.  There  were  three  vacancies  to  be  accounted  for  in  this 
district,  thus  :  the  preacher  in  charge  of  the  Nottawasaga 
and  St.  Vincent  Circuit,  and  the  assistant  preachers  for 
Barrie  and  Brock  Circuits.  The  first  vacancy  was  supplied 
by  Henry  Reid  ;  the  next,  it  is  believed,  by  George  Smith  ; 
the  third,  by  no  one  (the  devoted  missionary,  L.  O.  Rice, 
took  the  fortnight's  work  of  two  laborers  in  three  weeks, 
and  went  on  through  the  year  alone),  and  the  fourth  by 
William  Gundy,  who  had  exerted  a  good  influence  in  bring- 
ing the  British  element  into  a  good  temper  after  the  reunion 
measure  went  into  effect. 

58.  There  were  three  such  vacancies  to  supply  in  the 
London  District.  Samia  was  in  charge  of  the  Rev.  Thos. 
Fawcett,  with  "  one  to  be  sent ;  "  but  whether  that  one  was 
really  sent  the  author  cannot  now  recollect,  although  he  was 
the  chairman  of  that  district  at  the  time.  My  present 
impression  is,  that  the  necessity  for  a  supply  was  obviated 
by  the  preaching*  to  the  Indians  at  St.  Clair  by  Mr.  Henry 
P.  Chase,  who  was  an  educated  native  and  was  recognised 
as  a  local  preacher.  Sydenham  had  the  Rev.  Edward  Sal- 
lows for  its  Superintendent,  and  no  indication  from  the 
Minutes  that  there  was  another  preacher  associated  with 
him ;  but  there  was  another,  a  man  who  afterwards  per- 
formed a  good  work  and  became  historic.  This  was  no  other 
2* 


■84  CiASE,  AND 

than  Edvowrd  WMte,  a  large,  strong,  dark  young  man,  whoj 
only  then  laboring  tinder  the  chairman,  had  spent  a  part  of 
the  previous  year  in  the  Woodstock  or  Oxford  Circuit,,  but  i 
who  had  desisted  because  of  deep  depression  of  mind.  His  ' 
age  at  that  time  was  twenty-six.  He  was  born  in  Pennsyk 
vania,  and  transplanted,  with  his  parents,  to  the  swamp*  of 
Raleigh  Township,  at-  the  tender '  age  of  three  years.  He 
had  been  convinced  of  sin  in  boyhood,  and  had  found  peace 
with  God  at  the  early  age  of  sixteen,  at  a  prayer  meeting  in 
his  own  father's  house.  His  early  educational  opportunities 
had  not  been  great,  but  his  native  preaching  abilities  and 
powers  of  mind  were  above  the  average.  He  was  genial, 
zealous,  and  laborious,  and  had  powers  of  voice,  both  for 
speaking  and  singing,  which  greatly  aided  him  in  his  public 
functions. 

59.  On  Gosfield  and  Amhersiburg  Circuit  the.  second 
preacher  was  also  "one  to  be  sent,"  but  it  had  been  all  ar- 
ranged by  the  authorities  of-  the  Connexion  before  the  year- 
tSegan.  _A  young  man,  born  in  England  (in  Plymouth,  I 
think),  was  converted  early,  and  exercised  some  years  as  a 
local  preacher,  and  felt  that  he  was  called  to  devote  himself 
to  the  full  ministry  of  the  .Word ;  but  an  early  marriage,  or 
an  engagement  to  be  married,  prevented  that  in  England. 
He  went  to  the  United  States,  and  entered  the  ministry 
there,  where  he  labored  three  years.  His  wife  was  related 
to  some  of  the  most  influential  people  in  the  Wesleyan  Con- 
nexion in  England,  both  lay  and  clerical :;  those  friends 
preferred  the  two  to  be  identified  with  Methodism  in  the 
British  dominions,  and  through  their  influence  a  way  was 
opened  for  him  to  cross  the  lines  and  labor  on  a  frontier 
circuit  in  Canada.  He  had  received  at  least  deacon's  orders, 
so  that  after  one,  year's  travelling  under  the  Conference 
direct,  he  was  received  into  full  connexion  with  the  Con- 
ference in  1850.     This  was  Edwin  Clement,  a  man  medium- 


HIS   COTEMPORAKIES.  '      35 

sized,  with  good  preaching  ability,  studious,  and  very  suc- 
cessful in  his  work. 

60.  The  Bbantford  District  had  but  one  such  vacancy, 
and  that  was  most  efficiently  supplied.  At  the  Conference 
in  Belleville  that  summer,  two  young  local  preachers  from 
England,  seeking  employment  in  the  itinerancy  in  Canada, 
made  their  appearance.  There  had  been  an  obstacle  to 
their  entering  the  ministry  in  the  home  Connexion,  and 
yet  they  had  been  encouraged  to  come  to  Canada.  The 
obstacle  was,  that  they  were  married.  One  had  a  child  or 
two,  the  other  had  none.  One  was  tall,  the  other  was  short. 
The  former  was  the  more  promising  to  look  at,  but  the  latter 
outweighed  and  transcended  him,  in  the  long  run,  immea- 
surably. They  had  both  come. from  hot-beds  of  Methodist 
productiveness.  The  tall  man  was  from  Devonshire,  the 
short  one  from  Yorkshire  (Selby).  They  both  glowed  with 
fervor  demonstratively ;  the  fervor  of  the  Devonshire  man, 
however,  ultimately  cooled,  but  that  of  the  Yorkshire  man 
burnt  with  ever-increasing  flame,  and  has  not  burned  itself 
out  till  this  day.  We  are  writing  of  Bro.  Charles  Fish  ; 
he  it  was  who  was  "  sent  "  as  the  assistant  of  the  Rev.  John 
Bredin  in  the  Guelph  Circuit.  He  was  then  twenty-six 
years  old,  but  fair  and  fresh-looking,  compact  and  heavy. 
He  was  converted  at  fourteen,  and  began  to  preach  only  a 
year  later,  thus  giving  him  ten  or  eleven  years'  experience 
as  a  public  speaker  when  he  entered  on  circuit  work.  He 
was  an  easy,  commanding  speaker,  and  a  born  homilist.  He 
had  studied  much  that  related  to  the  ministry  then,  and  this 
species  of  study  he  has  vastly  extended  from  that  time  to 
this,  by  which  he  has  greatly  compensated  for  any  lack  of 
academic  training  he  may  have  had  to  mourn.  He  entered 
on  his  work  under  the  pecuniary  disadvantage  of  having 
only  a  single  man's  claim  ;  but  he  found  a  Yorkshire  friend 
in  the  Guelph  Circuit  who  gave  him  house  and  home  free  of 


36.  CASE,    AND 

charge.  The  name  of  Mr.  John  Jackson,  on  this  account 
and  many  others,  deserves  to  go  down  favorably  to  posterity. 
Conversions  and  revivals  were  the  fruits  of  Mr.  Fish's 
labors  in  that  circuit,  as  also  in  all  the  others  to  which  he 
has  been  appointed. 

61.  In  the  stations  made  for  the  Hamilton  Disteict  at 
the  Conference  of  1848,  there  were  two  vacancies  to  be 
supplied  by  preachers  not  on  the  Conference  roll,  namely, 
the  place  of  a  second  preacher  at  Simcoe,  and  the  same  at 
Owen  Sound.  The  Superintendent  of  the  former  was  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Cosford,  and  the  Superintendent  of  the  other 
the  Rev.  James  Hutchinson.  The  colleague  sent  to  assist, 
in  each  case,  chanced  to  be  an  Irishman.  A  middle-aged 
brother,  who  has  come  to  view  before  as  a  hired  local 
preacher,  was  Mr.  Hutchinson's  assistant — we  refer  to  pious 
George  Smith.  The  colleague  of  Mr.  Cosford  at  Seneca  was 
a  youth  not  quite  a  year  out  from  the  old  country,  yet  one 
who  had  experience  as  a  preacher,  and  was  able  in  the  pulpit. 
This  was  John  Swanton  Evans,  perhaps  twenty-four  years  of 
age,  who  had  labored  on  a  circuit  two  or  three  years  in  Ire- 
land, in  connection  with  the  Primitive  Wesleyans,  otherwise 
known  as  "  Clonites."  He  was  tall  and  graceful  in  person, 
genteel  and  pleasing  in  manners,  well-educated,  thoughtful, 
if  not  studious,  very  intellectual,  with  a  tendency  to  a 
metaphysical  sort  of  reasoning.  He  was  pious  and  amiable 
among  the  people,  but  it  took  him  several  years'  experience 
in  Canada,  besides  his  old  country  experiment,  to  convince 
himself  that  he  was  called  to  preach.  He  was,  however, 
the  only  one  who  doubted  his  ability  and  duty  to  preach  the 
gospel. 

62.  The  Coboueg  District  had  no  vacancies  such  as  we 
have  been  considering,  and  might  have  been  passed  over, 
excepting  that  the  venerable  Case,  our  principal  subject,  still 
remained  within  its  bounds,  in  charge  of  his  beloved  Indians 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  3? 

at  Alderville,  erst  of  Grape  Island,  and  in  charge  of  the 
Manual  Labor  School,  of  -which  he  had  been  the  founder. 
But  the  principal  reason  for  mentioning  him  in  connection 
with  the  district  is,  that  he  was  restored  to  the  chair  of  the 
district,  an  office  he  had  vacated  twenty  years  before,  when 
elected  General  Superintendent  of  the  Connexion,  at  the 
memorable  Ernestown  Conference,  and  which  office  he  was 
now  to  retain  another  three  years.  He  was  allowed  an  assist- 
ant on  his  mission,  and  went  in  and  out  among  his  brethren 
greatly  respected. 

63.  "We  pass  over  Belleville,  Kingston,  and  Brockvilte 
Districts,  as  requiring  no  annotation,  and  come  to  Bytovm, 
which  had  two  vacancies,  although  only  one  appears  upon 
the  Minutes.  The  first  occurred  at  the  head  of  the  district. 
That  vacancy  was  supplied  by  Henry  Budge,  the  taller  of 
the  two  young  Englishmen  already  referred  to.  He  had  a 
commanding  person  and  native  talent  for  the  pulpit,  and, 
had  he  not  been  trammelled  in  one  particular,  might  have 
been  very  useful.  L'Orignal,  it  now  appears,  had  a  second 
preacher,  in  the  person  of  John  B.  Armstrong,  a  native  of 
Ireland,  but  spiritually  born  and  raised  up  into  the  ministry 
in  that  hot-bed  of  ministerial  candidates,  Clarendon,  in 
Canada  East.  He  was  very  youthful,  lithe,  and  graceful  in 
person,  with  a  good  mind,  and  commanding  elocution — per- 
haps we  should  say,  also,  native  eloquence ;  and  if  two 
things  had  concurred  in  his  favor,  he  would  have  been  more 
distinguished  than  he  has  become,  which  is  saying  much  : — 
we  refer  to  his  want  of  a  strong  constitution,  and  his  being 
thwarted  in  his  wish  to  get  a  more  liberal  training  at  Vic- 
toria College.  The  discontinuance  of  the  travelling  chair- 
manship necessitated  the  circumscribing  of  the  boundaries 
and  the  increase  of  the  number  of  the  districts.  The  pre- 
vious year  there  were  only  six  districts  ;  this  year  there  were 
nine.     All  the  chairmen  had  been  in  the  office  before  except- 


SS  .      .  CASE,   ANi> 

ing  two — William* Squire,  the  Chairman  of  the  Kingston. 
District,  and  Edmund  Shepherd,  the  newly-appointed  Chair- 
man of  Bytown,  the  district  we'have  been  considering. 

64.  Besides  the  Rev.  E.  Evans,  whose  transfer  has  been 
v  referred  to,  four  others  received  appointments  in  the  Eastern 

Provinces.  Three  of  these  were  members  of  the  British 
Conference,  and  came  not  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Canada  Conference  until  the  Eastern  Canada  District  was 
incorporated  with  it  in  1854.  These  were  Edmund  BottereUt 
Henry  Lcmton,  and  William  Scott.  Indeed,  Mr.  Botterell, 
who  went  to  Prince  Edward  Island,  never  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  Upper  Canada  brethren  again  until  the 
great  unifying  measure  of  1874.  The  fourth  brother 
removed  was  only  temporarily  lent  to  the  Lower  Canada 
District,  for  want  of  a  suitable  young  man  for  Montreal. 
This  was  the  genial  and  eloquent  LachUn  Taylor,  who  con- 
tinued that  year  at  Montreal,  and  the  next  at  Three  Rivers, 
while  he  occasionally  rendered  service  at  Quebec,  lalso. 

65.  The  Rev.  Gr.  R.  Sanderson  was  re-appointed  Editor  of 
the  Gruardian,\a,Tid  conducted  it  with  great  efficiency,  the 
paper  being  enlarged  through  the  year,  and  its  circulation 
considerably  augmented.  The  Rev.  Anson  Green  continued 
in  the  office  of  Book  Steward,  and  received  the  honorajry 
degree  of  D.D.  from  an  American  University  during  the 
year.  / 

66.  Every  department  of  Connexional  work  was  prose^ 
cuted  with  unwonted  vigor 'during  the  year.  The  diligence 
of  the  circuit  preachers,  resulted  in  an  upward  tendency  in 
nearly  all  the  circuits,  except  in  those  where  the  union 
brought  antagonistic  elements  together,  which  resulted  ~m 
the  invocation  of-outside  agency. ,  This  last  was  "the  case  in; 
London,  as  the  writer  well  remembers,  to  his  sorrow  and 
cost  at  the  time,  upon  his  going  a  stranger  among  them.  A 
large  disruption  was  the  result,  and  the, organization  of  a. 


BIS   COTEMPORARIES.  39 

strong  New  Connexion  cause.  How  happily  the  present 
state  of  the  unified  body  contrasts  with  the  alienation  and 
turmoil  of  that  sorrowful  time  ! 

67.  The  following  circuits  were  among  the  most  favored 
with  revivals  during  the  year,  some  less  and  some  in  a 
marked  degree  for  the  greater  part  of  the  year  :  Richmond 
Street,  Toronto ;  Hallowell,  Kemptville,  Oakville,  Win- 
chester, Oshawa,  Stamford,  Norwich,  St.  Thomas,  St.  Vin- 
cent's, Demorestville,  Sherbrooke,  Richmond,  Bowmanville, 
Goderich,  Peterborough,  Seneca,  Matilda,  with  several 
others.* 

*  Since  the  text  for  1848-  was  made  up,  a  letter  from  our  princi- 
pal subject,  the  Rev.  "William  Case,  the  veteran  missionary  at  Alder- 
ville,  has  been  discovered,  in  which,  after  enumerating  a  number  of 
very  interesting  particulars  concerning  their  Manual  Labor  School, 
for  which  we  have  not  room,  gives  a  summary  of  his  people's  improve- 
ment under  missionary  teaching  and  example  : — 

"Twenty  years  ago  this  people  were  without  house,  or  field,  or 
cattle,  roving  in  bands  through  the  wilderness,  under  the  influence  of 
ardent  spirits,  wounding  and  murdering  one  another,  and  a  terror  to 
the  white  settlements.  At  the  annual  distribution  of  their  presents 
and  annuities,  the  whole  were  expended  in  revelry,  leaving  them  in 
suffering  the  remainder  of  the  year.  Since  their  conversion,  their 
presents  and  annuities  have  been  saved,  and  applied  for  their  comfort. 
They  have  now  in  a  block  three  thousand  six  hundred  acres  of  land, 
forty  dwelling-houses,  decent  and  comfortable,  barns,  saw-mill,  oxen, 
cows,  pigs,  horses,  farming  implements — all  purchased  with  annuities 
which  once  they  would,  in  a  few  weeks,  squander  in  drunken  revelries. 
These  advantages  are  contained  in  '  the  promise  of  the  life  that  now 
is.'  And,  further,  a  whole  people  renouncing  paganism,  attending 
religious  worship,  both  in  public  and  in  their  families  ;  the  Sabbath 
held  sacred  ;  their  widows  and  aged  provided  for;  the  savage  warriors 
become  ministers  of  the  gospel,  some  of  whom  are  ordained  and 
stationed  in  your  missions,  some  teachers  of  schools  and  interpreters 
for  the  white  missionary.  When  Dr.  Alder  was  at  Alderville,  he 
inquired  for  the  boys  of  the  Grape  Island  School,  whom  he  saw  at 
Hallowell  in  1832.  Several  of  them  are  now  laboring  in  the  mission 
work  as  ministers  or  teachers ;  some  have,  after   witnessing  a  good 


40  CASE,    AND 

68.  The  several  missionary  deputations  were  very  able, 
and  the  missionary  anniversaries  held  with  great  enthusiasm 
and  with  good  monetary  results.  And  the  new  Superinten- 
dent of  Missions,  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood,  was  enabled  to 
make  a  very  encouraging  statement  of  the  condition  of  the 
Indian  missions  for  the  missionary  notices  issued  by  the 
parent  society. 

69.  The  literary  institutions  of  the  denomination,  both 
g-wasi-Connexional  and  those  really  such,  were  accomplishing 
a  good  work.  In  the  first  class  was  the  Burlington  Acad- 
emy, conducted  by  the  Rev.  Daniel  C.  Yan  Norman,  A.M., 
in  Hamilton,  and  the  Adelaide  Academy,  conducted  by  the 
Rev.  Jesse  Hurlbert,  A.M.,  in  Toronto.  The  former  was 
the  more  efficiently  prosecuted.  The  Connexional  Univer- 
sity, Victoria  College,  at  Cobourg,  also  was  favorably 
reported  of.  Its  President,  the  Rev.  Alexander  McNabb, 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  in  Divinity  from 

,  Union  College,  New  York,  during  this  year.  Unhappily, 
however,  the  bestowment  of  this  honor  upon  him  by  some 
contretemps,  was  made  the  occasion  of  an  unseemly  discus- 
sion in  the  Conference  organ. 

70.  The  result  of  the  labors  of  the  (say,  one  hundred  and 
fifty  laborers,  besides,  perhaps,  another  fifty)  Connexional 
office-bearers,  supernumeraries  and  superannuates,  students, 
and  the  like,  after  a  year  of  most  assiduous  toil,  resulted  in 
the  moderate  gain  of  four  hundred  and  twenty-six  members, 

confession,  died  in  great  peace.  One  is  the  excellent  teacher  of  this 
interesting  Manual  Labor  School  (just  now  at  the  Normal  School  in 
Toronto. )  Twenty-two  years  ago  he  was  following  the  trail  of  his 
drunken  pagan  parents  through  the  woods,  often,  as  he  expresses  it, 
'  cold  and  hungry.'  This  '  cold  and  hungry '  pagan  boy,  reclaimed  by 
Christianity  and  educated  in  your  mission-schools,  is  now  the  intelli- 
gent Christian  of  courteous  manners,  and  useful  to  hundreds  of  his 
nation.  The  youth  of  his  school  are  preparing  to  follow  his  example 
of  honor  to  religion  and  usefulness  in  the  world." 


HIS   COTEMPOEARIES.  41 

making  the  whole  membership  for  Canada  West,  at  the 
close  of  the  Conference  year  1848-49,  just  twenty-four 
thousand  two  hundred  and  sixty-eight. 

71.  We  turn  to  the  Canada  East  section  of  Wesleyan 
Methodism.  The  District  Meeting  for  1848  commenced  its 
sittings  on  Thursday,  the  25th  of  May,  in  the  City  of  Quebec. 
All  the  ministers  of  the  district,  except  one  supernumerary, 
were  present.  The  Rev.  Matthew  Bichey,  D.D.,  presided, 
and  the  Rev.  John  Jenkins,  the  eloquent  returned  mission- 
ary from  India,  was  chosen  Secretary. 

72.  The  name  of  this  last-mentioned  gentleman  has  never 
before  appeared  upon  our  pages,  he  having  been  sent  from 
the  British  Conference  during  the  previous  Conference  year 
to  the  City  of  Montreal.  We  think  we  have  learned  that 
he  was  a  native  of  the  south-west  of  England,  probably 
some  part  of  Devonshire  or  Cornwall.  Certainly  his  country 
could  not  have  been  determined  from  his  accent,  for  a  man 
more  purely  English,  or  more  correct  and  charming  in  the 
intonations  of  his  fine  and  flexible  voice,  is  seldom  met 
with.  In  that  respect  he  was  like  "  one  that  can  play  skil- 
fully upon  the  harp."  He  had  enjoyed  the  benefit  of  the 
Theological  Institution  two  years  before  being  sent  into  the 
full  ministerial  work.  These  were  the  Conference  years 
1835-36  and  1836-37.  Thence,  like  several  of  the  most 
clever  and  erudite  men  of  the  old  body,  he  was  sent  into  the 
foreign  missionary  field.  Goobee  and  Bangalore,  in  India, 
enjoyed  between  them  the  first  five  years  of  his  full  minis- 
try—three years  at  the  first  place,  and  two  in  the  second. 
Malta,  the  scene  of  St.  Paul's  shipwreck,  in  the  classic  and 
beautiful  Mediterranean,  claimed  the  next  two  years  of  his 
labors.     Then  he  returned  and  labored  in  his  native  shire, 

n  the  important  Penzance  and  Camborne  Circuits,  where  his 
ability  as  a  pulpit  man  became  known  to  the  Connexional 
authorities.     And  when  the  exigencies  of  the  Upper  Canada 


42  CASE,    AND 

Connexion  called  the  Rev.  Matthew  Richey,  M.A.,  from  the 
great  Central  Methodist  Church,  in  Montreal,  the  demand 
of  its  trustees  for  a  minister  of  equal  pulpit  power  led  to 
the  selection  of  Mr.  Jenkins  to  supply  his  place.  That 
short  year's  performances  were  of  a  character  to  so  far  earn 
the  approval,  not  to  say  admiration,  of  his  ministerial 
brethren  as  to  lead  them  to  place  him  in  the  secretariat  of 
the  district.  At  that  period  he  seemed  the  able  theolo- 
gian, the  attracting  preacher,  and  the  urbane  Christian 
gentleman  and  minister.  He  was  rather  small  than  large 
in  person,  but  exceedingly  handsome  and  presentable — fair 
and  florid  in  complexion  was  he. 

73.  At  this  meeting  of  the  district  a  young  man  was 
brought  forward  for  reception  on  trial,  who  has  won  so  dis- 
tinguished a  place  in  Methodism,  and,  we  might  add,  before 
the  Christian  public  at  large,  as  to  make  the  entry  in  the 
District  Minutes,  anent  his  proposal  as  a  candidate,  of  great 
fc  interest  as  to  every  line  :  "  Question  6th. — What  persons 
are  recommended  to  be  admitted  on  trial  into  our  ministry 
at  the  ensuing  Conference  1  Answer  : — George  Douglas, 
of  the  Montreal  Circuit,  a  young  man  of  deep  piety,  ardent 
zeal,  consistent  Christian  character,  vigorous  intellect,  and 
studious  habits.  He  has  preached  with  much  acceptance  as 
a  local  preacher  for  the  last  two  years,  and  has  exercised  the 
office  of  a  leader  with  great  spiritual  profit  to  the  members 
of  his  charge.  He  possesses  religious  and  intellectual  qual- 
ifications for  the  work  of  the  ministry  of  no  ordinary  kind. 
He  believes  and  teaches  our  doctrines  as  taught  in  Mr. 
Wesley's  Sermons  and  Notes,  and  approves  of  our  Disci- 
pline as  set  forth  in  our  larger  Minutes.  He  is  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  is  out  of  debt,  and  has  no  matrimonial  engage- 
ment. He  was  unanimously  recommended  by  the  March 
quarterly  meeting,  the  members  of  which  earnestly  .hope  he 
may  be  permitted  to  enjoy  the  privileges  of  the  Wesleyan 


HIS  COTEMPORARIES.  43 

Theological  Institution.  He  offers  himself  for  the  general 
work.  Recommended  by  John  Jenkins,  Superintendent" 
(whese  autograph  is  here  given). 

"  Note. — Bro.  Douglas  was  subjected  to  a  rigorous  exam- 
ination by  the  chairman.  His  replies  to  the  questions  pro- 
posed evinced  an  extensive  acquaintance  with  theology, 
great  doctrinal  discrimination,  and  a  sound  judgment.  The 
meeting  is  unanimous  in  adopting  the  recommendation  of 
the  Superintendent,  both  as  to  introduction  into  the  proba- 
tionary ministry  and  his  reception  into  the  Theological 
Institution,  believing  that  such  a  step  would  lead  to  his 
extensive  usefulness  in  the  Christian  Church  and  in  the 
world." 

74.  Very  refreshing  religious  services,  an  enthusiastic 
public  missionary  meeting,  and  the  impressive  laying  of  the 
corner-stone  of  the  "  new  and  elegant  church  edifice  then 
being  erected"  in  the  City  of  Quebec,  characterized  thiB 
assembling  of  the  ministers  from  the  various  parts  of  this 
extensive  district. 

75.  We  are  happy  that  it  is  in  our  power  to  give  the 
veritable  stations  which  finally  went  into  effect  in  the  dis- 
trict, something  so  hard  to  record,  in  most  years,  with 
historical  certainty.  The  places  of  the  ministers,  proba- 
tioners, and  hired  local  preachers  were  as  follows  : — 

Montreal — John  Jenkins,  Charles  De  Wolfe,  Lachlin 
Taylor. 

Quebec — John  C.  Davidson,  Charles  Churchill. 

Three  Rivers — Henry  Lanton. 

Wesleyville — John  Hutchinson. 

St.  Johns  and  Chambly — James  Brock,  G-ifford  Dorey. 

Huntington  and  Russeltown — Hugh  Montgomery,  Robert 
Graham. 

OdeUtovm  and  Hemmingford — Matthew  Lang,  John 
Douglas. 


44  CASE,    AND 

Clarenceville— Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 
Dunlmrn, — John  Tompkins. 
Shefford — Malcolm  Macdonald. 
Stanstead — John  Borland. 
Compton — Thomas  Campbell. 
Slierbrooke — Henry  Cox. 
Melbourne — Benjamin  Slight,  G.  Douglas. 
New  Ireland — Rufus  A.  Flanders. 

76.  A  few  remarks  will  be  required  relative  to  these 
names.  Messrs.  Hutchinson  and  Graham  have  already 
come  before  the  reader  as  itinerant  preachers  from  two  of 
the  smaller  Conferences  in  Europe,  whose  standing  as  veri- 
table ministers  was  acknowledged,  but  who  were  not 
properly  members  of  the  British  Conference.  They  ulti- 
mately became  "members  of  the  Canada  Conference.  Mr. 
George  Douglas,  some  time  between  this  District  Meeting 
and  his  appointment  to  the  Bermudas,  in  1849,  went  to  one 
of  the  theological  institutions  in  England,  but,  at  this  writ- 
ing, we  are  not  informed  how  long  he  spent  there,  or  what 
time,  if  any,  he  was  employed  on  the  Melbourne  Circuit, 
with  which  his  name  stood  connected. 

77.  All  sources  of  information  have  been  applied  to  in 
vain  to  illustrate  the  labors  of  the  Lower  Canada  brethren 
during  the  course  of  this  year  (1848-49),  excepting  the 
journal  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Slight,  which  may  be  quoted 
in  part  as  setting  forth  the  labors  in  the  average  rural 
circuits  in  that  Province.  It  will  be  remembered  that  his 
name  and  that  of  the  youth,  George  Douglas,  stand  for  the 
Melbourne  Circuit. 

78.  His  circuit  itself,  and  several  incidents  of  the  year, 
are  described.  "  This  circuit,"  said  he,  "  is  extensive.  It 
will  require  the  travelling  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  miles 
to  go  around  it ;  seven  times  preaching  per  week,  besides  a 
class  or  two  to  meet.     This  is  in  its  present  state ;  but  I 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  45 

expect  to  have  a  colleague,  who  will  take  one  corner  and 
extend  his  sphere  of  labor  in  that  direction.  Then  I  shall 
take  up  a  few  places  nearer  home.  The  whole  will  save  a 
sermon  or  two  in  the  fortnight,  and  a  few  miles  of  travel- 
ling. 

79.  "September  3rd,  1848. — I  was  agreeably  surprised, 
and,  I  trust,  thankful  to  God,  to  see  in  the  Zion's  Herald 
that  that  respectable  institution,  the  Wesleyan  University, 
had  conferred  an  honor  upon  me,  thus  expressed  :    ' 


and  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Slight,  Canada  East,  were 

severally  elected  to  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  ! ' 
My  heart  has  been  led  out  in  prayer  for  more  of  the  mani- 
festation of  the  Spirit — for  more  holiness,  and  that  I  might 
be  enabled  to  consecrate  all  the  influence  I  may  acquire 
from  this  hour  to  the  cause  of  God.  The  following  are  the 
remarks  of  the  Herald  :  '  Our  readers  know  that  we  do  not 
estimate  highly  such  titles  as  usually  given.  We  are  happy 
that  the  deserved  severities  we  have  from  time  to  time 
uttered  on  the  prodigality  of  American  college  honors  are 
in  no  wise  applicable  to  our  own  institution.  Its  cautious 
discrimination  has  won  it  high  public  respect.  Its  honors 
are  really  honorable.'  " 

80.  The  Prqtestant  and  English-speaking  population  of 
Canada  East  have  shown  a  great  desire  and  tendency  to 
escape  from  their  popish  surroundings,  and  to  go  to  Canada 
West  or  the  United  States.  This  may  have  been  one  of 
the  causes  why  the  District  Meeting  at  the  close  of  the 
ecclesiastical  year  had  to  report  a  decrease  of  127  members, 
leaving  the  total  number  only  3,782.  These,  added  to  the 
membership  under  the  care  of  the  Upper  Canada  Confer- 
ence, which  was  24,268,  made  the  total  strength  of  Wes- 
leyan Methodism,  in  point  of  membership,  in  the  two 
Canadas,  just  28,050. 


46  CASE,   AND 

1849-50. 

81.  The  Conference  which  sat  at  the  commencement  of  this 
ecclesiastical  year  began  its  deliberations  in  the  Town  of 
Hamilton,  on  the  6th  of  June,  1849,  and  continued  them 
until  the  14th  of  the  same  month. 

82.  The  Rev.  Matthew  Rickey,  D.D.,  was  no  longer  the 
mere  Vice-President,  but  the  actual  President  of  the  Confer- 
ence by  appointment  of  the  British  Conference  of  the  fore- 
going year.  As  this  country  was  his  home,  it  -was  thought^ 
unnecessary  to  appoint  a  Co-Delegate.  Dr.  Richey's  ability 
ran  rather  in  the  line  of  scholarship,  theological  knowledge, 
and  speaking  ability  than  in  that  of  legislation  and  debate. 
He  pretended  to  no  extra  acquaintance  with  points  of  ecclesi- 
astical law,  especially  the  peculiarities  of  our  Anglo-Canadian 
Methodist  law  and  usages,  or  any  very  superior  adminis- 
trative ability ;  yet  his  good  sense,  good  nature,  and  his 
quick  observation  carried  him  through — especially  as  he  was 

k  not  unwilling  to  learn  from  the  pleadings  on  either  side  and 
from  the  advice  and  experience  of  those  who  had  filled  the 
presidential  chair  before  him ;  and  as  he  was  evidently  de- 
sirous to  do  what  was  fair  and  equitable,  so  he  secured  the 
support  of  the  dispassionate  majority  of  the  Conference, 
who  sustained  his  rulings. 

83.  The  deliberations  of  the  session  passed  rather  smoothly 
except  as  it  related  to  a  discussion  which  grew  out  of  some 
college  affairs  that  had  transpired  through  the  year,  which 
was  rendered  acrimonious  by,  perhaps,  too  much  pertinacity 
on  one  side,  and  too  much  sensitiveness  on  the  other.  As  it 
was,  it  was  preparing  the  way  for  the  withdrawal  of  one  who 
had  been  considered  very  useful  and  very  respectable  for  a 
good  many  years,  a  few  months  after. 

84.  Eight  probationers  were  received  into  full  ministerial 
standing  with  the  Conference,  four  of  whom  yet  continue  in 
the  active  work,  namely :  David  Glappison,  Richard  Whiting, 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  47 

Robert  Robinson,  and  Thomas  W.  Constable.  Two  "  are  not, 
for  God  took  them"  to  himself,  namely  :  Francis  Chapman 
and  James  Armstrong  ;  one,  alas  !  after  some  time,  forfeited 
his  standing  in  the  body,  but  it  will  be  time  enough  to  fur- 
nish his  name  when  we  are  obliged  to  record  his  expulsion ; 
and  one  is  an  enfeebled  but  honored  superannuate,  namely, 
Brother  Alexander  T.  Green. 

85.  No  object  will  be  served  by  transcribing  the  names 
of  those  in  the  intermediate  years  of  probation  between  the 
first  and  fourth  :  we  come  to  those  whose  names  appear  as 
being  received  on  trial  for  the  ministry.  Eight  were  of  this 
class,  six  of  whom  had  labored  through  the  previous  Confer- 
ence year  under  the  direction  of  chairmen  of  districts.  Of 
these,  Edwin  Clement,  Edward  White,  Charles  Fish,  Henry 
Budge,  and  John  Armstrong  (five  in  all)  we  have  described 
already  in  connection  with  the  account  of  last  year's  work. 
The  sixth  of  the  chairmen's  supplies,  Richard  Wilson,  was  over- 
looked by  not  knowing  his  station,  till  now  discovered  through 
Mr.  Cornish's  invaluable  Handbook.  Young  Wilson  was  of 
English  (Yorkshire)  parentage,  both  of  them  hearty,  demon- 
strative Methodists  of  the  old  school,  born  also  himself  in 
England  ;  for  his  parents  came  to  this  country  about  fifteen 
years  before,  and  he  could  not  have  been  certainly  less  than 
twenty  when  introduced  to  the  Conference.  We  are  morally 
certain  that  he  was  converted  very  early  in  life  at  an  appoint- 
ment of  the  Osgoode  Circuit,  known  as  Long  Island  Locks. 
He  is  remembered  as  a  remarkably  conscientious  and 
religiously-minded  boy,  and  through  divine  help  he  "  never 
wickedly  departed  from  the  Lord."  He  was  naturally  gifted 
and  eloquent,  and  his  diligent  private  studies  were  all  prose- 
cuted in  the  direction  of  the  Christian  ministry.  He  evinced 
a  readiness  in  writing,  as  well  as  speaking,  which  would 
have  enabled  him  to  excel  in  that  respect  had  he  chosen. 
Personally,  he  was  stout  and  healthy-looking,  which  augured 


48  CASE,    AND 

more  for  his  physical  energy  than  some  late  derangements 
of  his  system  have  permitted  to  be  fulfilled.  From  the  au- 
thority above  indicated,  it  appears  he  had  spent  the  previous 
year  (1848-49)  under  the  direction  of  his  chairman,  on  the 
St.  Andrews  Circuit,  on  the  Lower  Canada  side  of  the  Lower 
Ottawa,  enjoying  the  instructive  superintendency  of  that 
strict  and  efficient  disciplinarian,  the  Rev.  D.  B.  Madden. 

86.  The  only  two  candidates  who  had  not  been  mentioned 
before  were  really  young  men  of  great  promise  ;  these  were 
Alexander  /Sturgeon  Byrne  and  William  Smith  Griffin. 
Griffin  was  twenty-three  years  of  age,  Byrne  was  only  seven- 
teen. Each  was  of  a  good  Methodist  stock.  Byrne  was 
Irish,  Griffin  was  Canadian.  Both  were  well  started  on  the 
road  to  a  liberal  education.  Griffin  had  decided  natural 
talents,  but  Byrne  evinced  genius  of  a  superior  order. 

87.  All  who  want  full  particulars  of  Mr.  Byrne  may  con- 
sult the  "  Stripling  Preacher,"  which  preserves  a  memorial 
of  his  "Life  and  Remains."  He  was  a  grandson  of  the 
Rev.  Alexander  Sturgeon,  for  many  years  a  leading  member 
of  the  Irish  Conference,  after  whom  he  was  named,  and 
immediate  son  of  the  Rev.  Claudius  Byrne,  twenty-four 
years  a  member  of  the  Irish  Conference,  and  after- 
wards twenty-seven  years  a  member  of  the  Canada  Confer- 
ence. Alexander  was  born  in  the  itinerancy  at  Dungannon, 
Ireland,  June  20,  1832.  Early  dedicated  to  God  and  care- 
fully trained  up  in  accordance  with  his  baptismal  obligations, 
being  carried  to  the  class-meeting  by  his  pious  nurse  from 
infancy,  he  seemed  never  to  have  sinned  away  prevenient 
grace.  Yet  in  advance  of  all  that,  in  his  thirteenth  year, 
after  a  livelong  night  of  prayerful  agony,  he  was  brought  into 
the  assured  liberty  of  the  sons  of  God.  This  event  took  place 
about  daybreak,  on  a  Monday  morning,  in  the  month  of 
February,  in  1845,  a  little  over  four  years  before  his  being 
received  as  a  Conference  probationer.  He  developed  in  mind 


HIS   C0TE1IP0RARIES.  _  49 

and  body  several  years  earlier  than  is  common  to  boys. 
When  introduced  to  the  Conference,  he  was  not  tall  but  stout 
and  heavy,  bearded  like  many  at  twenty-five,  and  apparently 
in  good  health.  His  cranium  was  a  good  deal  beyond  the 
average  adult  masculine  head.  He  was  led  by  a  train  of 
providences,  almost  immediately  after  his  conversion,  to  ex- 
ercise his  gifts  in  public,  which  were  of  such  an  extraor- 
dinaiy  character  as  to  open  his  way,  when  not  more  than 
fifteen  years  of  age,  into  many  of  the  first  pulpits  of  the 
Irish  Connexion,  from  which  he  proclaimed  the  unsearchable 
riches  of  Christ  to  large  congregations,  brought  together  by 
the  fame  of  his  precocious  talents.  In  the  winter  of 
1848-49  his  father  and  family  emigrated  to  this  country. 
Preaching  in  the  City  of  New  York,  offers  of  a  free  collegiate 
training  were  made  to  detain  him  in  the  States,  but  declined. 
From  the  period  of  his  arrival  in  Toronto  until  the  Confer- 
ence, he  assisted  the  Rev.  Lewis  Warner  on  the  Yonge 
Street  Circuit,  where  he  won  golden  opinions.  A  visit  to 
London  along  with  the  President  of  the  Conferencs,  soon 
after  his  arrival,  was  accompanied  with  such  a  blessing  and 
such  marvellous  indications  of  talent,  as  to  lead  to  his 
appointment  to  that  city  at  the  Conference  we  are  describing, 
as  the  colleague  of  the  twriter. 

88.  Mr.  Griffin  was  the  son  of  Mr.  Ebenezer  Griffin,  of 
Waterdown,  where  William  8.  was  born,  and  the  grandson  of 
the  notable  Smith  Griffin,  from  whom  he  received  his  second 
name,  a  distinguished  man  in  early  Canadian  Methodism, 
who  came  to  view  in  the  earlier  volumes  of  this  work,  and 
of  the  end  of  whose  career  we  shall  give  an  account.  Our 
subject  was  converted  and  joined  the  Church  at  the  age  of 
twenty.  The  history  of  our  Canadian  Methodist  Church  will 
have  to  chronicle  his  doings  among  the  leaders  of  the  Con- 
nexion. Griffin  had  the  advantages  of  a  fine  person  and  good 
physique. 
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50  CASE,    AND 

89.  Besides  #hose  received  into  full  connexion  in  a  regular 
course  of  graduation,  a  matured  minister  of  fifty,  who  had 
labored  twenty  four  years  in  connection  with  the  Irish  Con- 
ference, during  five  of  which  he  had  been  chairman  of  a  dis- 
trict, was  accepted  by  the  Canada  Conference,  and  appointed 
to  the  important  Brantford  Circuit,  which  he  superintended 
with  great  care  and  success,  as,  indeed,  he  did  all  his  circuits. 
This  gentleman  was  low  in  stature,  but  stout  and  enduring. 
"With  all  the  native  wit  and  vivacity  of  his  country,  he  knew 
how  to  perform  sacred  duties  in  a  serious  manner ;  and  in 
his  intercourse  with  those  to  whom  he  owed  respect,  he  was 

the  well-bred  gentleman.  This  was  the  Rev.  Claudius  Byrne, 
father  of  the  young  preacher  of  that  patronymic  of  whose  re- 
ception on  trial  we  have  just  given  an  account. 

90.  The  two  functionaries  at  the  Conference  publishing- 
house  in  Toronto,  were  re-appointed  by  the  ballot  of  their 
brethren  for  another  year,  namely  :  the  Rev.  Anson  Green,- 
as    Book-steward ;  and   the    Bev-  George  B.   Sanderson  as 

'  Editor  of  the  Guardian. 

91.  Among  the  doings  of  this  Conference  was  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  Bev.  John  Byerson  "to  proceed  to  "England  as 
representative  of  the  Conference  to  the  English  Conference,  to 
be  held  in  Manchester,  on  the  25th  of  July,  1849,"  ensuing. 

92.  Among  the  visitors  at  this  Conference  was  the  Bev. 
John  Jenkins,  of  the  Canada  East  District,  whose  fine  talents 
and -pleasing  elocution  came  into  play  in  the  pulpit  and  on 
the  platform  at  the  public  reception  of  the  young  ministers 
into  full  connexion,  and  at  the  Annual  Conference  Missionary 
Meeting.  Another  visitor  was  the  Rev.  J.  G.  Witted,  an 
Englishman  by  birth,  but  member  of  the  Genesee  Annual 
Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church  in  the  United  States, 
Bethel  Missionary  at  Buffalo,  N.Y.,  whose  addresses,  inter- 
larded as  they  were  with  sailor  phrases,  gratified  the  taste 
of  some.     This  brother,  who  for  a  part  of  his  life  had  been 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  .51 

a  sailor,  after  some  time,  became  a  member  of  the  Canada 
Conference ;  in  consequence  of  which,  he  will  come  under 
review  once  more. 

93.  The  stations  of  the  brethren  for  the  ensuing  year,  till 
June,  1850,  may  be  seen  by  reference  to  the  published 
Minutes,  but  a  few  hiati  may  be  supplied  by  the  historian 
from  private  sources  of  information  : — 

94.  The  Toronto  District  had  three  places  to  be  sup- 
plied, namely,  first,  the  Nottawasaga  and  St.  Vincent  Mis- 
sions. We  have  reason  to  believe  that  the  latter  was  sup- 
plied by  Henry  Reid,  whose  name  was  not  yet  in  the 
Minutes,  but  who  was  ultimately  received  into  connexion 
with  the  Conference  and  his  time  allowed  him.  The  Not- 
tawasaga  ground  was  taken  into  the  Barrie  Circuit,  and 
although  the  "  one  to  be  sent "  to  the  aid  of  the  Rev.  Luther 
0.  Rice  was  never  sent,  yet  that  indefatigable  brother  took 
the  whole  ground,  as  he  had  done  the  year  before,  going  to 
each  preaching  place  once  in  three  weeks.  Here  is  the  regis- 
ter of  his  work :  "  During  the  two  years,  I  travelled  rising 
of  14,000  miles,  nearly  two-thirds  of  which  was  performed 
on  horseback. — L.  O.  R." 

95.  The  London  District  had  three  vacancies  to  be  sup- 
plied, namely  :  the  place  of  second  preacher  in  the  Wards- 
'viUe,  Chatham,  and  St.  Thomas  Circuits.  In  the  first  named 
circuit,  the  Rev.  Edward  Sallows  was  assisted  by  a  young 
man  of  very  considerable  mind  and  education,  of  whose  ante- 
cedents we  are  thus  summarily  informed  in  his  Conference 
obituary  :  "  Thomas  Peacock,  born  A.D.  1817,  in  Yorkshire, 
England.  He  gave  himself  to  God  and  joined  the  Wes- 
leyan  Church  in  the  nineteenth  year  of  his  age.  In  1839  he 
received  license  as  an  exhorter;  in  1845  was  recommended 
to  the  itinerant  work,  placed  on  the  list  of  reserve,  and  ap- 
pointed to  a  circuit  the  following  year.  At  the  close  of  the 
year  he  emigrated  to  America,  and  after  two  or  three  years 


52  -  CASE,    AND  v      •    '  * 

in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  the  United  States,  h*$ 
came  and  joined  the  Wesleyan  "  (Church)  "in  Canada."  On ■' 
the  recommendation  of  the  Rev.  W.  Pollard',  the  chairmaiH 
appointed  him  to  WardsvUle  for  the  year  of  which  we  write. 
He  was  a  brother  of  sincere  piety,  but  not  marked  by  great 
impressiveness  in  the  pulpit  -or  uncommon  zeal  as  a  pastor. 
The  Chatham  Circuit  had,  along  with  the  devoted  Samuel 
Fear,  for,  perhaps,  the  first  quarter  of  the  year,  a  Mr.  Arm- 
strong, an  Irishman  by  birth,  who  had  been  recognised  as  a 
minister  in  the  Methodist  New  Connexion,  in  Canada  ;  but 
despite  a  considerable  amount  of  a  peculiar  sort  of  talent,  he 
was  not  satisfactory  with  them,  and  did  not  prove  satisfac- 
tory to  the  "Wesleyan  body,  and  after  a  short  time,  retired 
from  among  them  also.  His  place  was  well  supplied  by  a 
young  man  who  had  not  had  greab  previous  advantages  of 
mental  training,  and  who  had  scarcely  expected  ever  to 
enter  the  full  ministry  of  the  Word,  yet  who,  when  called 
upon,  left  his  secular  occupation  without  gainsaying  and 
came  in  unclerical  attire  to  the  circuit.  But  he  had  been 
savingly  converted  a  few  years  before  in  the  north  of  Eng- 
land, where  he  had  been  afterwards  appointed  a  local  preacher, 
whence  he  had  come  out  to  a,  relative  in  one  of  the  western 
townships  of  the  Province  not  long  before  being  employed, 
But  then,  he  was  naturally  gifted — had  a  good  voice — a  ' 
warm  heart — a  commanding  person — and  a  great  zeal  for 
God  and  souls.  Need  I  say,  that  such  a  young  man,  under 
the  direction  of  such  a  Superintendent  as  Samuel  Fear,  was 
well  received  and  succeeded  well  among  .the  fervent-minded 
Methodists  of  that  circuit  ?  This  young  man,  with  some  of 
his  probation  spent  at  Victoria  College,  grew  up  to  be  our 
highly-jespected  ministerial  brother,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Stohbs. 
The  St.  Thomas  Circuit  was  supplied  by  a  young  man  who 
has  come  into  notice  on  two  other  circuits  as  a  supply,  but 
whose  name,  on   account  of  his  own  hesitancy,  does  not 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  53 

appear  in  the  Minutes  for  that  year.     This  was  our  intel- 
lectual and  able  friend,  John  S.  Evans. 

96.  The  Brantford  District  had  but  one  vacancy,  the 
second  preacher's  place  on  the  Woodstock  Circuit.  The  Rev. 
Kennedy  Creighton  was  the  Superintendent,  and  informs  me 
that  his  colleague,  during  the  first  part  of  the  year,  was  a 
Mr.  Frank  Bottome,  not  long  from  England.  He  was  quite 
satisfactory,  but  for  some  reason  left  and  went  to  the  United 
States,  where  a  person  of  that  name  (whether  he,  or  not)  has 
attained  some  eminence  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
The  balance  of  tie  year  was  supplied  by  John  Wesley  Caw- 
thorn,  who  had  been  employed  and  discontinued,  and  of 
whom,  therefore,  we  obtain  another  glimpse.  He  had  sin- 
cere piety  and  mind,  and  he  made  good  sermons,  but  there 
were  physical  and  other  defects  which  neutralized  the  good 
which  he  might  otherwise  have  done.  He  did,  I  believe, 
obtain  a  standing,  for  a  time  at  least,  after  leaving  Canada, 
in  the  Michigan  Annual  Conference,  but  further  the  memo- 
rial of  him  cannot  be  carried. 

97.  There  was  one  vacancy  in  The  Hamilton  District, 
namely,  in  the  Grimsby  Circuit,  where  "  one  was  to  be  sent " 
to  the  assistance  of  the  Rev.  Hamilton  Biggar.  The  supply 
was  one  of  two  preaching  brothers,  the  sons  of  exemplary 
parents,  at  East  Settlement,  in  the  old  Ottawa  Circuit.  His 
elder  brother  had  been  in  the  work  about  seven  years.  This 
one,  with  more  natural  ability  and  a  better  education,  was 
just  entering  it.  We  are  writing  of  Isaac  Barber,  a  young 
man  some  twenty-two  or  twenty-three  years  of  age. 

98.  Scugog  Mission,  in  The  Cobourg  District,  was  sup- 
plied from  some  adjacent  circuit.  The  only  vacancy  in  the 
Belleville  District  was  the  second  preacher's  place  at 
Napanee,  under  the  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Mc- 
Fadden,  who  informs  us  that  his  colleague  was  Thomas 
Cleghorn,  a  young  man  of  good  connections  (in  fact,  of  a 


54  CASE,    AND 

talented  family},  good  early  opportunities,  good  mind,  gdod 
physique,  short,  stout,-  and  strongly  built.  He  had  also- 
youth  on  his  side ;  and  'while  he  remained  in  the  country, 
his  career  did  not  belie  his  early  promise,  rising  early,  as  he. 
did,  to  a  chairman's  place  in  the  Connexion.  ^ 

99.  Peter  Jones,  the  Indian  evangelist,  was  designated  *$jl 
general  missionary  'work,  "  under  the  direction  of  the  Super- 
intendent of  Missions,"  the  Bev.  S.  D.  Rice  having  taken 
his  place  at  the-Muneey  Mission.  Charles  La  veil,  by  the- 
consent  of  the  "Conference,  was  sent  to  aid  the  brethren  in 
Canada  East,  and  stationed  in  Montreal.  Thomas  Demorest, 
the  old  itinerant,  was  appointed  General  Travelling  Agent 
for  the  Book  Room,  and  gave  a  good  account  of  his  specific 
work.  Wm.  Haw  was  allowed  to  visit  England,  and  was 
absent  for  the  year.  David  Mardie,  by  some  oversight,  was'' 
left  without  a  station,  but  afterwards  received  an  appoint- 
ment at  Bath,  and  gave  good  news  from  the  circuit  through 
the  year. 
'  100.  During  this  Conference  year  the  Indian  Industrial- 
School  was  erected  and  commenced,  under  the  management 
of  the  Rev.  S.  D.  (now  Dr.)  Rice,  which  was  the  beginning 
of  his  valuable  connection  with  the  educational  efforts  of  the 
Canada  Conference.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  President  of  Conference,  Superintendent  of  Mis- 
sions, Chairman  of  the  District,  Editor  of  the  Guardian,  the 
Chiefs  of  the  Ojibway  nation  of  that  vicinity,  and  a  large 
concourse  of  persons,  on  the  17th  of  July,  1849. , 

101.  Seven  days  before  that  event,  the  representative  to 
the  British  Conference '  sailed  from  New  York,  and  afier 
a  successful  voyage,  was  received  by  the  British  Conference 
with  great  cordiality.  His  account  of  the  successful  work- 
ing ©f  the  reconstructed  union  afforded  great  joy, 

101.  The  President  of  the  Conference  procured  a  horse 
and  chaise  and  prepared  himself  to  inspect  every  part  of  his 


HIS  C0TEMP0RAR1ES.  55 

extensive  charge  in  person,  and  only  for  a  lamented  accident, 
sustained  while  driving  through  the  streets  of  Toronto,  which 
laid  him  up  for  a  time,  he  would  have  gone  far  towards  the 
realization  of  his  purpose.  Fortunately  he  rallied  after  some 
weeks,  and  resumed  his  episcopal  oversight,  although  it 
may  be  well  doubted  whether  he  ever  fully  recovered  from 
the  effect  of  the  shock  he  sustained. 

102.  The  rank  and  file  of  this  militant  host,  in  the  several 
positions  assigned  them,  whether  in  front  or  rear,  seem,  as  a 
whole,  to  have  exerted  themselves  to  their  utmost  for  the 
extension  of  the  moral  conquests  which  they  were  prosecut- 
ing. The  communications  to  the  Guardian  relative  to  their 
several  labors  and  successes  were  frequent  and  voluminous  ; 
and  were  more  or  less  fraught  with  encouraging  [news — 
despite  the  prejudice  against  Wesleyanism  here,  as  well  as  in 
England,  consequent  upon  the  agitation  and  inflammatory 
publications  which  followed  upon  the  expulsion  of  Messrs. 
Dunn,  Everett,  and  Griffith  from  the  British  ;,  Wesleyan 
Conference ;  and  despite  the  embittered  discussion  of  the 
question  of  "  denominational  colleges  "  versus  the  "  Godless 
Provincial  University,"  the  former  side  of  which  was^taken 
by  the  leading  influences  of  the  Connexion  and  their  ^organ, 
but  which  did  not  prove  to  be  the  more  popular  side. 

103.  A  profitable  camp-meeting  was  held  in  the  Township 
of  Vaughan  soon  after  the  Conference,  ^attended  by  the 
President  of  the  Conference  and  Editor  of  the  Guardian, 
and  sustained  by  such  ministers  as  Warner,  William  Young, 
J.  Baxter,  Law,  A.  Campbell,  and  Slater,  which  was  cheered 
by  evidences  of  the  divine  presence,  and  gave  one  of  the 
first  impulses  to  the  work  for  the  year.  An  Indian  camp- 
meeting,  which  followed  in  the  month  of  September,  had  a 
similar  effect  on  that  department  of  the  work ;  twenty-four 
converts  were  reported.  Even  more  powerful  meetings  took 
place  before  the  summer  was  ended'that  were  in  no  respect 


56  CASE,    AND 

behind  these  frwt>.  Before  the  winter  had  set  in,  conversions 
were  reported  from  six  to  a  dozen  circuits  in  various  num- 
bers— from  thirty  souls  to  one  hundred.  This  last  number 
was  gathered  in  on  the  Goderich  Mission. 

104.  Minute  accounts  of  successful  Sunday-school,  chapel, 
and  missionary  anniversaries,  social  tea-meetings,  and  revival 
services  were  sent  in  from  many  circuits,  stations,  and  mis- 
sions, ranging  from  the  Ottawa  to  the  St.  Clair  Rivers, 
including  Bytown,  Richmond,  Perth,  "Winchester,  Eliza- 
bethtown,  Waterloo,  Belleville,  Sidney,  Picton,  Brighton, 
Cobourg,  Norwood,  Millbrook,  Peterborough,  Alderville, 
Scugog,  Bowmanville,  Oshawa,  Markham,  Hamilton, 
Niagara,  St.  Catharines,  Dundas,  Guelph,  Brantford,  Wood- 
stock, London  (town  and  township  circuits),  Blanchard, 
Stratford,  Goderich,  St.  Thomas,  Adelaide,  Gosfield,  Am- 
herstburg,  and  Sarnia 

105.  Considering  the  two  forces  counteracting  each  other, 
the  evangelizing  one  and  the  repressive  ones,  which  have 
been  referred  to,  perhaps  the  medium  result,  shown  in  the 
goodly,  but  not  great,  number  of  774,  added  to  the  mem- 
bership of  the  societies  in  connection  with  the  Canada 
Conference,  was  as  many  as  could  have  been  expected  under 
the  circumstances.  One  popular  measure  was  enacted  at  the 
Conference  and  carried  out  through  the  year :  that  of  the 
creation  of  the  Financial  District  Meeting,  which  embraced 
an  equal  number  of  laymen  to  that  of  ministers. 

106.  Having  disposed  of  the  Canada  West  Connexion,  I 
turn  to  see  what  can  be  made  of  the  doings  of  Wesleyan 
Methodism  in  Canada  East  during  this  Conference  year  of 
1849-50.  But  we  are  sorry  to  confess  that,  although  so 
near  the  present  time,  we  find  less  data  than  usual  to  guide 
us  in  our  inquiries.  Our  MS.  journal  is  exhausted,  and  we 
have  sought  in  vain,  in  the  Christian  Guardian  and  Wesleyan 
Magazine,  for  the  time,  place,  and  transactions  of  the  district 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  57 

meetings  which  marked  the  end  of  the  year  1848-49  and 
the  beginning  of  1849-50,  of  which  we  now  write ;  or, 
indeed,  for  the  occurrences  which  related  to  this  part  of  the 
work  throughout  the  year.  We  give  the  stations  for  Canada 
East  as  found  in  the  General  Minutes  for  that  year,  although, 
for  reasons  often  assigned,  we  are  sure  that  they  are  not  per- 
fectly reliable. 
- 107.  Canada  :  Eastern  District  : — 

Montreal — John  Jenkins,  Charles  De  Wolf,  A.M.,  Chas. 
Lavell,  Henry  Cox. 

Quebec — Charles  Churchill,  Lachlin  Taylor. 

Three  Rivers — Malcolm  McDonald. 

Wesley viMe — One  wanted  (John  Hutchinson). 

St.  Johns  and  Chamhly — Matthew  Lang,  John  Douglas. 

Huntingdon — James  Brock. 

Russeltovm — Hugh  Montgomery. 

OdeUtoum  and  Hemmingford — John  C.  Davidson,  Gifford 
Dorey. 

Clarenceville — Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 

St.  Armands — William  Scott. 

Sheffbrd — Kufus  A.  Flanders. 

Stanstead — John  Borland. 

Compton — Thomas  Campbell. 

Sherbrooke — Henry  Lanton. 

Melbourne  and  Danville — Benjamin  Slight,  A.M. 

Leeds — One  wanted. 

108.  Four  of  the  above  we  know  to  be  authentic,  namely, 
those  for  Montreal,  Quebec,  Melbourne,  and  Wesley ville, 
and  feel  almost  morally  certain  all  the  rest  were  so. 

109.  In  the  absence  of  other  sources  .of  information,  we 
make  some  extracts  from  the  journal  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin 
Slight,  A.M.,  in  charge  of  the  Melbourne  Circuit,  as  a  speci- 
men of  the  manner  and  spirit  in  which  the  labors  of  the 
brethren  were  prosecuted  in  that  section  of  the  work  : — 

3* 


58  CASE,    AND 

"  June  25th,  1849. — Held  our  first  quarterly  meeting  for 
this  ecclesiastical  year.  We  introduced  many  useful  mea- 
sures, such  as  new  prayer  meetings,  appointed  two  or  three 
exhorters,  arranged  for  a  new  class  meeting,  and  also  the 
holding  of  a  Bible  class  at  Melbourne. 

"  July. — Preached  back  in  the  woods.  There  was  present 
a  poor  girl,  about  seventeen  or  eighteen  years  of  age,  who 
had  never  seen  a  meeting  or  heard  a  sermon  in  her  life.  On 
inquiry,- 1  found  her  parents  did  not  possess  a  Bible  or  a 
New  Testament ;  so,  perhaps,  she  knew  almost  as  much  of 
even  nominal  Christianity  as  a  Hottentot. 

"  September  24th. — Yesterday  and  to-day  together  I  have 
preached  five  sermons,  renewed  tickets  to  one  class,  buried  a 
corpse,  and  travelled  thirty-five  miles.  Last  evening  a  young 
woman  was  under  deep  conviction. 

"  September  30th. — I  am  happy  to  reflect  that  we  have  had 
a  few  instances  of  conversion  this  year.  Our  congregations 
in  most  places  are  very  good,  and  a  good  deal  increased,  and 
there  is  a  most  fixed  and  deep  attention  to  the  Word  deliv- 
ered. I  would  add,  I  have  had  uncommon  liberty  in  preach- 
ing.    I  hope  all  these  things  are  omens  of  good. 

"  October  7th. — Held  our  second  quarterly  meeting.  An 
unusual  influence  attended  the  sermon,  from  Bph.  iii.  8  : 
"  The  unsearchable  riches  of  Christ."  At  the  love-feast 
there  was  much  good  feeling.  Several  said  it  was  one  of 
the  best  they  had  ever  attended,  and  one  who  had  been  in 
several  places  declared  it  the  very  best  he  had  attended  in 
Canada.  ' 

"  October  16th. — The  last  three  days  I  have  travelled 
seventy-five  miles,  preached  five  times,  married  three 
couples,  and  baptized  two  infants. 

"January  1st,  1850. — Last  night  we  held  our  watch-night 
in  Melbourne  Chapel.     The  Word  appeared  to  take  effect. 

"January  18th. — Our  missionary  anniversaries  this  year 


HIS   COTBMPOEAEIES.  59 

were  among  the  most  successful  we  have  had.  The  speeches 
excellent.  In  every  place  there  was  an  excellent  degree  of 
divine  influence.  The  collections  in  every  circuit  more  than 
those  of  last  year — in  some  places  more  than  double,  and  in 
one  place  more  than  three  times  the  amount  of  last. 

"  February. — We  have  just  concluded  a  series  of  special 
services  at  Melbourne.  The  congregations,  owing  to  the 
state  of  the  weather  and  other  causes,  were  small.  Five 
young  persons  came  forward  for  prayers. 

"March  21st. — The  following  item  is  in  the  Watchman: 
'  Walsingham. — This  circuit  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
toilsome  in  the  nation,  extending  over  an  area  of  twenty-four 
by  fifteen,  under  the  care  of  two  ministers.'  Compare  this  with 
my  present  circuit.  Melbourne  Circuit,  without  touching 
Danville,  is  twenty-six  miles  by  eighteen,  and  then  such  roads 
as  take  twice  the  length  of  time  and  fatigue  to  travel  over 
them — and  all  for  one  preacher.  So,  then,  the  Walsingham 
preachers  would  travel  over  this  area  once  a  month,  whereas 
the  Melbourne  preacher  has  to  travel  over  his  area  once  in 
two  weeks." 

110.  Mr.  Slight,  under  the  date  of  "February,  1850," 
records  an  event  which  must  have  been  a  great  blow  to  the 
district,  in  the  sudden  death  of  their  respected  chairman, 
who  had  been  one  of  the  most  laborious  and  successful 
preachers  the  Canada  Connexion  had  ever  been  favored 
with.  This  is  the  brief  entry  in  Mr.  Slight's  journal  in 
which  he  chronicles  that  solemn  event  :  "  Heard  of  the 
sudden  death  of  the  chairman  of  our  district,  the  Rev. 
Matthew  Lang.  He  had  gone  to  the  barracks  at  St.  Johns 
to  meet  the  military  class,  and  died  in  about  twenty  minutes 
after  his  arrival  there." 

111.  The  leader  of  these  volumes  has  been  informed  of 
Mr.  Lang's  birth,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  in  the  year  1798  ; 
of  his  bringing  up   in   Preston,   Lancashire,   England ;  his 


60  CASE,    AND 

conversion  at  Che  age  of  sixteen,  and  his  entrance  on  the 
work  of  foreign  missions  at  the  age  of  twenty -five — that-  is 
to  say,  in  1823.  It  only  remains  for  us  to  transcribe  the 
testimony  to  his  character,  and  the  particulars  of  his  death, 
to  be  found  in  his  Conference  obituary,  in  which  his 
brethren  say  of  him  :  "  He  maintained  an  unblemished 
character  through  the  whole  of  his  public  course,  and  was 
eminently  distinguished  by  fervor  and  uniformity  of  zeal  in 
seeking  the  glory  of  Christ  and  the  salvation  of  man.  He 
yielded  to  none  of  his  brethren  in  attachment  to  the  doc- 
trines and  established  economy  of  Methodism,  or  in  the 
faithful  enforcement  of  its  discipline.  He  was  '  in  labors 
more  abundant ; '  and  his  acceptable  ministry  was  signally 
attended  with  the  divine  blessing.  He  sustained  with  honor 
and  integrity  some  of  the  most  important  offices  in  his 
district,  and  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Chairman  of  the  s 
Eastern  Canada  District  and  General  Superintendent  of  its 
missions.  The  oft-repeated  desire  of  his  soul,  in  his  most 
devout  frame,  was  that  which  is  expressed  in  the  words, — 

'  0  that,  without  a  lingering  groan, 
I  may  the  welcome  word  receive; 
My  body  with  my  charge  lay  down, 
And  cease  at  once  to  work  and  live  !  " 

His  end  was  in  accordance  with  this  wish.  While  engaged 
in  the  service  of  the  Church,  he  was  suddenly  seized  with 
sickness,  which  in  twenty  minutes  terminated  in  death. 
His  last  utterance,  and,  indeed,  the  only  one  which  he  had 
power  to  articulate,  was  in  perfect  unison  with  his  unvary- 
ing trust  in  the  atonement  of  Christ,  and  his  untiring  zeal 
for  God's  glory  :  '  Sweet  Jesus,  help  me  to  glorify  Thee  !' 
He  died  at  St.  Johns,  on  the  21st  of  February,  1850,  in 
the  fifty-second  year  of  his  age,  and  the  twenty-seventh  of 
his  ministry." 


HIS    COTEMPORARIE.S.  61 

112.  Labors  like  those  recorded  by  Mr.  Slight,  and  labor- 
iousness  such  as  that  ascribed  to  Mr.  Lang,  which,  we  have 
cause  to  believe,  were  generally  characteristic  of  the  brethren 
in  that  district,  would  have  produced  great  results,  under 
the  divine  blessing,  only  for  the  drawbacks  with  which  Pro- 
testantism has  hitherto  had  to  contend  in  that  Pro- 
vince, namely,  a  scattered  population  accessible  to  their 
labors,  and  the  constant  tendency  of  the  Protestant  popula- 
tion to  emigrate  to  parts  more  congenial.  Yet,  with  all 
these  hindrances,  about  fifty  souls  ("  forty-nine ")  were 
netted  in  their  societies,  making  their  whole  number  3,849, 
and  the  whole  net  gain  in  Canada  East  and  West,  813  ; 
and  the  total  strength  of  Wesleyan  Methodism,  in  the  two 
Provinces,  28,891. 

1850-51. 

113.  The  Conference  of  1 850  commenced  its  sessions  on  the 
5th  of  June,  and  continued  them  until  the  1 3th  of  the  same 
month,  in  the  beautiful  Town  of  Brockville,  under  its  last 
year's  President,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richey,  who  had  been  re-ap- 
pointed at  the  request  of  the  Canada  Conference.  There 
was  a  large  attendance  of  members — ninety  in  number.  A 
modest,  but  able  and  long-tried  member  of  the  Conference, 
the  Rev.  Asahel  Hurlbert,  was  elected  Secretary,  who  per- 
formed his  duties  with  quiet  dignity  and  efficiency. 

114.  No  less  than  fifteen  junior  brethren  were  received 
into  full  connection  with  the  Conference  and  ordained,  all 
of  whom  afterwards  rendered  good  service  to  the  Church  in 
one  way  or  another ;  and  the  greater  part  of  them  may  be 
said  to  have  risen  to  Connexional  eminence.  Six  of  them 
afterwards  became  chairmen  of  districts,  besides  becoming 
otherwise  conspicuous,  namely,  James  C.  Slater,  James 
Gray,  Edwin  Clement,  John  A.  Williams,  David  G.  McDow- 
ell, and   Thomas  Cleghorn.      Messrs.   Gray  and   Williams 


62  CASE,    AND 

were  severally  afterwards  secretaries  of  the  old  Canada 
Conference  ;  and  the  latter  the  first  President — and  that  for 
the  space  of  two  years,  of  the  newly-constituted  London 
Annual  Conference.  One  of  the  fifteen  brethren  (and 
before  that  year  was  expired)  was  called  to  preside  over  the 
Connexional  University  at  Cobourg — Victoria  College — in 
which  arduous  and  honorable  position  he  continues  until 
this  day,  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Need  any 
Methodist  be  told  that  we  are  writing  of  the  Rev.  Samuel 
S.  Nelles,  A.M.,  now  Doctor  of  Divinity  1  One — William 
Henry  Poole — has  stood  pre-eminent  for  years  among  the 
most  laborious  and  successful  city  pastors.  George  Case, 
Thomas  Banna,  and  William  Pattyson  were  destined  to 
labor  long  and  efficiently ;  and  Francis  Chapman  to  enter 
early  and  triumphantly  into  his  rest. 

115.  Five  young  brethren  offered  themselves  as  recruits  to 
the  ranks  of  the  Church's  ministerial  staff,  and  upon  examina- 
tion were  found  to  answer  the  standard  required,  who  were 
all  in  the  vigor  of  early  manhood,  ranging  from  twenty  to 
twenty-five  years  of  age — none  much  below  twenty,  and  cer- 
tainly none  much  above  twenty-five.  These  were  Isaac  Barber, 
Joseph  Hugill,  Andrew  A.  Smith,  Richard  M.  Hammond,  and 
Wm.  Burns.  All  but  one  were  from  the  lower  portion  of  our 
Provincial  work — a  region  which  has_  been  very  fruitful  of 
good  preachers.  Their  nationalities  were  diversified.  Barber 
was  an  Americo-Canadian,  Burns  and  Hammond  were  Irish 
Canadians,  Smith  was  a  Scotch  Canadian,  and  Hugill  an 
Anglo-Canadian. 

116.  Isaac  Barber  was  employed  during  the  preceding 
year  under  a  chairman  of  a  district,  and  his  early  history 
and  characteristics  have  been  given  in  our  account  of  the 
last  year's  operations. 

117.  Wm.  Burns,  we  have  said,  was  an  Irish  Canadian. - 
Both  his  parents  were  from  the  North  of  Ireland;  but  his 


HIS    COTEMPOEAKIES.  63 

father,  who  had  been  in  the  British  army,  and  who  was  dis- 
charged in  this  country  (to  which  he  came  in  1814)  at  the 
close  of  the  war  of  1812-15,  who,  drawing  land  in  the  Town- 
ship of  Goulbourn,  remained  in  the  one  locality  until  the 
day  of  his  death.  William  had  the  benefit  of  pious  parents, 
whose  eldest  born  he  was.  His  mother  had  been  converted 
in  Ireland  before  her  immigration  in  1826  ;  and  his  father 
was  converted  in  this  country  soon  after  his  marriage,  which 
took  place  a  few  months  after  Miss  Rutledge's  (his  wife's 
name)  arrival.  The  training  of  a  religious  household  predis- 
posed the  son,  at  the  early  age  of  sixteen,  to  accept  the  truth 
effectually  from  the  lips  of  a  young  evangelist,  Charles 
Taggart,  newly  come  on  his  first  circuit.  The  Rev. 
B.  Nankivill,  of  whom  many  retain  a  pleasing  memory, 
made  him  both  leader  and  local  preacher.  His  advanced 
education  qualified  him  to  teach  school,  in  the  prosecution  of 
which  useful  profession  he  left  the  Richmond  for  Kemptville 
Circuit,  where  the  discerning  eye  of  the  Rev.  A.  Hurlbert 
singled  him  out  for  the  itinerant  work.  Through  the  Kempt- 
ville Quarterly  Meeting  and  the  Brockville  District  Meeting 
he  was  proposed  to  the  Conference  for  reception  on  trial. 
He  was  only  twenty-two  years  of  age,  yet,  being  dark- 
complexioned  and  heavily  bearded,  as  also  stocky  and  strong, 
he  seemed  several  years  older.  His  twenty-seven  years  of  toil 
have  not  falsified  the  promise  of  his  physical  endurance. 
His  sound  average  mind,  more  than  medium  preaching 
abilities,  and  unostentatious  assiduity,  have  made  him  a 
blessing  to  all  the  circuits  on  which  he  has  labored. 

118.  Eicliard  Metcalf  Hammond  was  of  Irish  Methodist 
parentage,  bom  in  the  Township  of  Lanark,  and  received  his 
second  baptismal  name  in  honor  of  the  much-loved  pioneer 
evangelist  of  those  townships,  to  whom  the  people  felt  they 
were  under  such  great  religious  obligations — the  Rev.  Mr. 
Metcalf.     This  young  man  was  early  converted,  and  brought 


64  CASE,    AND 

the  best  moral  habits  into  his  official  life ;  and  as  he  had 
enjoyed  the  advantages  of  Victoria  College  for  a  considerable 
time  before  going  into  the  public  ministry  of  the  Word,  his 
sound,  active,  good  mind  had  received  more  development 
than  was  enjoyed  by  many  candidates  at  that  time.  He  had 
a  native  aptitude  for  clear,  cogent,  and  pointed  practical 
preaching.  Such  was  the  introduction  of  one  of  the  most 
useful  preachers  of  the  body. 

119.  Andrew  A.  Smith  was  born  in  the  vicinity  of  Perth, 
U.  C,  in  December,  1824,  of  Scotch  Presbyterian  parents,  but 
with  a  kindly  estimate  of  Methodism.  He  was  religiously 
brought  up,  and  drew  instruction  and  benefit  from  all  con- 
tiguous sources.  He  attended  the  Methodist  Sabbath-school  in 
Perth  superintended  by  the  devoted  McGrath,  in  which 
E.  B.  Harper  was  a  teacher,  and  the  Bible-class  of  the  catholic- 
spirited  Thomas  0.  Wilson,  Kirk  minister.  His  educational 
advantages  comprised  the  Common  School  in  Bathurst,  the 
High  School  in  Perth,  two  years,  or  more,  at  Victoria 
College,  and  a  classical  training  under  Rev.  Robert 
•  Taylor,  A.M.,  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (son  of  a  Wesleyan 
minister  in  Peterboro').  His  occupation  during  the  inter- 
vals of  his  educational  course,  was_  school  teaching ;  first  in 
the  County  of  Lanark,  and  afterwards  in  the  Town  of  Peter- 
borough. His  conversion  took  place  in  Perth  under  the  labors 
of  a  fellow-Scotsman,  the  Bev.  James  Currie,  in  the  year 
1841.  The  revival  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  happy  sub- 
jects began  in  the  Methodist  church,  but  extended  to  the 
Presbyterian  church  under  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Bev. 
Mr.  Wilson.  Nevertheless,  Andrew  cast  in  his  lot  among 
the  Methodists  and  was  licensed  to  exhort  while  atCobourg  by 
the  Bev.  B.  Jones,  and  authorized  to  preach  in  a  local  sphere 
at  Peterboro'  by  the  now  sainted  Goodson.  I  should  have 
said,  had  I  received  the  information  sooner,  that  Mr.  Smith 


HIS    COTEMPOEAKIES.  65 

supplied  Sabbath  a pp ointments  almost  all  the  previous 
Conference  year — the  year  1849-50, — and  in  the  month  of 
January,  1850,  he  moved  within  its  boundaries  and  took  his 
full  share  of  circuit  work  until  the  end  of  the  year.  They 
had  a  prosperous  time.  He  was  low-set,  stout  and  strong, 
with  a  clear,  ringing  voice,  good  elocution,  good  fancy,  and 
good  preaching  ability. 

120.  We  have  said  that  Joseph  Hugill  was  an  Anglo-Cana- 
dian, but  upon  more  minute  inquiry,  we  find  that  he  was 
born  in  Yorkshire,  old  England,  although  brought  up  in  this 
Province,  to  which  he  came  with  his  parents  at  the  age  of 
eight  years.  He  was  converted  to  God  in  March,  1844,  at  a 
protracted  meeting  held  at  Switzer's  Church,  on  what  is  now 
called  the  Streetsville  Circuit.  He  was  a  light-complex- 
ioned  young  man,  of  good  manners,  who  had  received  a 
liberal  education;  and  his  official  obituary  pronounces  him  "a 
diligent  student,  a  good  preacher,  a  faithful,  judicious  pastor, 
a  wise  counsellor,  and  a  warm  and  sincere  friend."  Thus 
constituted  and  thus  qualified,  he  was  destined  to  begin  with 
an  important  circuit  (the  Dundas),  and  to  give  great  satisfac- ' 
tion  in  his  ministry  of  the  very  considerable  length  of  nine- 
teen years.  He  was  about  the  age  of  twenty-two  at  this  his 
setting  out  in  the  work. 

121.  While  young  soldiers  were  putting  on  their  harness 
and  mounting  the  ramparts,  two  old  veterans  were  being 
laid  to  their  rest,  crowned  with  the  honors  of  glorious,  though 
bloodless  warfare.  The  Canada  Connexion  owed  them  both 
to  the  neighboring  Republic  ;  but  both  had  become  natura- 
lized and  spent  over  thirty  years  in  the  service  of  the  Cana- 
dian Church.  Both  were  amiable,  attracting  men  person- 
ally— both  were  above  the  average  (one  considerably  more 
so)  for  ministerial  attractiveness  and  efficiency — and  both 
fell  without  an  instant's  warning,  but  fell  in  the  maturity  of 


66  CASE,    AND 

Christian  excellence.  Each  died  in  the  fields,  abroad  under 
the  open  canopy  of  heaven,  and  alone — one  beneath  the 
glorious  rays  of  the  noonday  sun,  and  the  other  in  the  night 
season  under  the  shimmering  rays  of  the  multitudinous 
stars.  The  mention  of  their  names  will  recal  to  the  reader 
two  prominent  actors  in  the  heroic  work  of  Canadian  Metho- 
dist evangelism,  the  venerable  and  Reverends  Ezra  Healey 
and  Franklin  Metcalf.  "  They  were  lovely  and  pleasant  in 
their  lives,  and  in  their  death  they  were  not  (very)  far 
divided."  Healey  had  fallen  dead  on  the  night  of  December 
27th,  1849,  in  the  act  of  crossing  a  field  to  assist  a  neighbor- 
ing family  whose  house  was  on  fire ;  Metcalf  died  (no  one 
knows)  while  on  an  errand,  with  horse  and  cart,  to  the  back 
part  of  his  farm,  on  the  10th  day  of  June,  1850.  The  news 
reached  the  Conference  while  in  sesssion,  and  soon  the  heads 
of  all  his  "  old  companions  in  distress  "  were  bowed  in  sorrow 
and  tears.  A  service  was  held  during  the  Conference  to  the 
honor  of  his  memory.  A  solemn  procession  of  his  brethren 
was  organized,  and  proceeded  from  the  house  of  Mr.  Amos 
Stearns  with  crape  badges  on  their  arms,  which  proceeded 
with  "  solemn  steps  and  slow  "  to  the  church,  where  a  ser- 
mon was  preached  by  the  President,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richey, 
and  a  eulogy  on  his  character  pronounced  by  Elder  Case. 
The  Conference  pronounced  Healey  "  a  man  of  amiable  dis- 
position, good  pulpit  abilities,  an  indefatigable  pastor,  and 
energetic  in  his  work."  Metcalf  was  said  to  have. "  filled 
most  of  the  important  stations  in  the  work." 

122.  This  session  of  Conference  was  enlivened  and  ren- 
dered interesting  by  the  visit  of  two  honored  strangers  from 
other  sections  of  Methodism,  both  of  whom  have  appeared 
in  our  pages  before.  The  one  a  comparatively  young  man, 
who  came,  at  his  own  instance,  from  the  Eastern  Canada 
District  Meeting,  and  preached  a  truly  evangelical  sermon, 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  67 

besides  addressing  the  Conference ;  the  other,  an  aged  minis- 
ter of  Christ,  who  came  as  the  authorized  bearer  of  the 
salutations  of  the  American  Church,  being  delegated  by  the 
General  Conference  of  that  body.  The  first  was  the  Rev. 
Charles  Churchill,  of  Montreal ;  the  other,  the  venerable  and 
Reverend  Nathan  Bangs,  D.D.,  of  New  York. 

123.  It  was  interesting  to  have  the  company  and  to  enjoy 
the  conversation  and  the  ministrations  of  this  ripe  old 
divine  of  seventy-two  years;  and  that  the  rather,  because 
he  owed  his  conversion  and  introduction  into  the  ministry 
to  the  instrumentality  of  Canadian  influences.  The  first 
nine  years  of  his  half-century  of  ministerial  life  had  been 
given  to  the  two  Provinces,  beginning  with  the  century  and 
expiring  with  the  first  decade  of  this.  His  figure  and  ap- 
pearance were  most  majestic  :  about  six  feet  three  inches  in 
height,  and  proportionately  sizable,  still  erect,  and  mode- 
rately active,  with  ample  locks,  white  as  the  driven  snow, 
falling  upon  his  shoulders.  His  peculiar  voice  had  lost  none 
of  its  power,  and  his  mind  none  of  its  activity.  Besides  his 
official  address  to  the  Conference,  which  abounded  in  remi- 
niscences of  the  past  and  statements  of  Connexional  pro- 
gress, he  spoke  at  the  reception  of  the  young  ministers  into 
full  connexion,  and  took  the  President's  place  by  preaching, 
with  great  power,  the  sermon  at  their  ordination,  on  the  fol- 
lowing Sunday.  Appropriate  resolutions  were  passed,  com- 
plimentary to  both  the  strangers.  The  venerable  delegate 
returned  to  his  home,  and  in  about  twelve  years  after  was 
gathered  to  his  fathers,  and  thus  passed  from  the  field  of 
our  historic  vision. 

124.  The  official  Connexional  appointments  were  :  The 
Rev.  John  Ryerson  as  the  President's  Co-Delegate  ;  the  Rev. 
Anson  Green  was  re-elected  Book-Steward  ;  and  the  Rev .  G. 
R.  Sanderson,  Editor.     Some  changes  were  made  in  lesser  ap- 


68  CASE,    AND 

pointments.  The  Hev.  S.  D.  Rice  was  removed  from  Mount 
Elgin  to  Kingston,  where  his  business  talents  were  made 
available  in  the  erection  of  the  much-needed  Sydenham 
Street  Church ;  and  the  wide-spread  business  reputation  of 
the  Rev.  Samuel  Rose  led  to  his  removal  from  Dundas  to 
take  charge  of  the  Industrial  Institute  at  Munceytoum,  a 
work  in  which,  because  of  his  adaptation,  he  was  successful, 
perhaps,  beyond  the  average. 

125.  We  might  anticipate  another  change  which  took 
place  before  that  civil  year  was  ended.  About  this  time  the 
Rev.  Alexander  McNabb,  D.D.,  resigned  his  connection  with 
the  Wesleyan  ministry,  and  was  returned  "  withdrawn "  in 
this^  year's  Minutes,  which,  of  course,  terminated  his  Princi- 
palship  in  the  College,  in  which  there  was  a  vacancy  when 
the  stations  were  made  out.  Rev.  Conrad  Vandusen 
still  continued  Treasurer  and  Agent,  a  situation  which 
he  had  held  during  the  preceding  year,  as  he  did  for  an- 
other year  after  the  one  of  which  we  are  writing.  When 
the  College  Board  met  to  make  arrangements  for  the  ensu- 
ing year,  the  Rev.  Samuel  S.  Nelles,  A.M.,  who  was  the 
writer's  colleague  at  London,  giving  great  satisfaction  to  his 
fellow-laborer  and  the  people,  was  literally  forced,  much 
against  his  own  preferences,  to  accept  the  office  of  Principal 
of  the  Connexional  University,  then  in  a  most  enfeebled 
and  precarious  state.  For  many  reasons,  which  might  be 
satisfactorily  given,  the  London  Circuit  was  one  which  just 
then  required  an  efficient  ministerial  staff.  The  question 
was,  who  would  make  a  satisfactory  successor  to  Brother 
Nelles  1  The  authorities  cast  about,  and  the  following  was 
the  solution  of  the  question  : — The  Rev.  George.  Young,  a  very 
popular  pastor,  was  removed  from  his  Superintendency  at 
Glanford  to  be  Mr.  Carroll's  assistant  at  London;  and  the  Rev. 
Wm.   Haw,  who  had  just  returned  from  a  year  and  a-half's 


HIS    COTEMPOKARIES.  69 

absence  in  Europe,  was  appointed  Mr.  Young's  successor. 
The  whole  matter  seemed  providential :  Mr.  Haw  needed  a 
place,  and  an  opening  was  provided  for  him  :  there  was  not 
another  wjio  would  have  answered  as  well  for  the  College 
as  Principal  Nelles,  as  the  history  of  his  incumbency  from 
that  time  to  this  attests  ;  and  as  for  the  London  Circuit,  no 
person  could  have  been  sent  who  would  have  done  it  more,  if 
so  much,  service  as  Brother  George  Young.  He  was  urbane 
and  pleasing  in  manners,  devout  in  spirit,  diligent  in  pastoral 
duties,  a  painstaking  student  and  able  preacher,  and  a  skil- 
ful and  successful  laborer  in  revival  meetings.  Every  inter- 
est of  the  cause  went  forward,  and  there  was  a  net  aug- 
mentation in  the  membership  of  ninety-six  at  the  close  of 
the  year. 

126.  The  Rev.  Egerton  Ryerson,  D.D.,  who  was  about  to 
proceed  to  Europe  on  some  business  connected  with  the 
Educational  Department  of  the  Province,  was  elected  dele- 
gate to  the  next  meeting  of  the  British  Conference,  and 
sailed  at  an  early  day  after  the  rise  of  the  Canada  Confer- 
ence ;  but  having  to  proceed  to  the  Continent  at  the  time  of 
the  session  of  the  Parent  Conference,  his  functions  as  dele- 
gate were  confided  to  the  Rev.  Br.  Alder,  the  Colonial  Mis- 
sionary Secretary. 

127.  The  stations  for  the  Barrie  District,  as  they  stand  in 
the  Minutes  for  1850,  leave  a  good  deal  to  be  supplemented. 
But,  fortunately,  an  appeal  to  the  then  active  Chairman,  the 
Rev.  Lewis  Warner,  enables  me  to  supply  the  first  four 
omissions  :  Mr.  Warner  called  to  his  assistance  for  the 
first  half  of  the  year  a  young  Scotchman  named  Muirhead, 
a  local  preacher,  formerly  of  Carleton  Place  ;  and  when  he 
sent  him  to  open  a  new  mission  at  Kincardine  during  the 
course  of  the  year,  he  supplied  his  place,  as  his  own  colleague 
on  the  Barrie  Circuit,  with  a  young  Irish-Canadian  by  the 


70  CASE,    AND 

name  of  James  M.  Clarke, '  whose  journal  is  in  my  posses 
sion,  of  whom  I  will  give  an  account  under  the  history  of 
the  coming  year.  Muirhead  did  not  remain  permanently  in 
the  work.  Nottawasaga  was  supplied  by  a  hired  local 
preacher,  a  Bro.  George  Smith,  whose  peculiar  relation 
to  the  work  has  been  already  described.  Henry  Beid, 
whose  relation  was  the  same,  but  who  was  ultimately 
received  into  full  connection  with  the  Conference  and 
ordained,  efficiently  worked  up  the  St.  Vincent  Circuit. 
Beausoliel  Island  and  French  River  were  in  charge  of  the 
Rev.  Horace  Dean,  whose  name  was  left  off  the  Minutes  for 
one  year  because  of  an  involuntary  mistake.  I  owe  it  to 
the  painstaking  researches  of  the  Rev.  G.  H.  Cornish,  as 
recorded  in  his  Hand-Book,  that  I  am  able  to  inform  the 
reader  that  Owen  Sound  was  supplied  by  the  Rev.  Benjamin 
Jones,  who  had  been  located  during  the  three  previous  years, 
and  who  travelled  this  and  the  next  year  under  a  chairman, 
preparatory  to  his  uniting  again  with  the  Conference  for  a 
time.     He  will  come  into  view  once  more. 

1 28.  There  were  several  vacancies  to  be  provided  for  in 
the  London  District  at  the  beginning  of  the  year,  as  any- 
one will  observe  by  casting  his  eye  over  the  printed  list  of 
stations.  The  Adelaide  Mission  was  the  first.  Although 
the  appointee's  name  could  not  appear  in  the  Minutes, 
according  to  Connexional  usage,  this  case  was  arranged 
for  in  the  Stationing  Committee  at  the  Conference :  John 
Hutchinson,  who  had  been  a  New  Connexion  missionary  in 
Canada  from  1838  to  1842,  and  then  became  a  Wesleyan 
local  preacher  in  the  City  of  Montreal  till  1845,  was  at  that 
time  employed  by  the  Eastern  Canada  District  authorities  to 
supply,  first  on  one  circuit  and  then  another,  till  the  end  of  the 
year  1849-50,  and  his  ministerial  standing  acknowledged, 
in  which  capacity  he  has  come  to  view  several  times  in  these 
memorials,  was  recommended  to  the  Stationing  Committee 


HIS    COTEMPOBARIES.  71 

for  a  circuit  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richey,  and  the  Chairman  of 
the  London  District  agreed  to  accept  him  as  a  supply  for 
the  Adelaide  Mission.  After  some  little  delay  he  arrived, 
and  proved  to  be  an  able  and  original  preacher,  besides 
being  otherwise  approved  of.  He  gave  great  satisfaction  in 
his  circuit ;  but,  taking  the  fever  and  ague,  he  was  forced  to 
give  up  his  circuit  towards  the  end  of  the  year,  and  retired 
to  Hamilton,  where  he  was  very  useful  till  1857,  when,  we 
shall  see,  he  was  called  out  again. 

129.  The  Minutes  show  the  want  of  a  second  preacher  for 
Chatham.  The  chairman  knew  of  no  supply  at  the  Confer- 
ence, but  on  his  homeward-bound  way  he  was  informed  by 
the  venerable  S.  Waldron  of  a  young  local  preacher  teach- 
ing a  school  within  his  own  charge,  whom  he  could  recom- 
mend. He  was  solicited  to  go,  and  consented  to,  so  soon  as 
he  could  disengage  himself  from  his  school.  The  following 
August  he  appeared  at  my  door  in  London,  mounted  on  a 
tall  horse  and  accoutred  for  the  itinerancy.  This  was  Joel 
Briggs,  then  twenty-two  years  of  age,  but  looking  stout  and 
enduring.  The  following  is  from  his  bfficial  obituary,  the 
substance  of  which  was  compressed  from  an  account  of  him 
by  the  present  writer,  published  soon  after  his  lamented 
death : — 

"  Bro.  Briggs  was  the  son  of  a  pious  mother,  who  was 
descended  herself  from  some  of  the  earliest  Methodists  in 
the  Township  of  Ancaster.  He  was  left  without  a  father  at 
the  early  age  of  eight  years ;  the  mother  was  taken  from 
her  family  not  long  afterwards.  Joel  may  be  said  to  have 
been  deprived  of  a  parental  home  and  to  have  lived  among 
strangers  until  he  had  a  home  of  his  own. 

"  The  circumstances  in  which  he  was  placed  exposed  him 
to  great  hazard  of  soul  and  body  during  his  early  youth, 
from  which  he  was  rescued  by  a  marked  conversion  at  the 
age  of  eighteen.     A  sermon  preached^  by  a  gifted  blind  man, 


72  CASE,    AND 

Mr.  Dixon,  was  the  means  of  his  awakening;  and  the  Revs. 
Messrs.  Jeffers  and  Pollard  are  mentioned  in  his  journal  as 
being  the  instruments  in  leading  him  to  Christ.  But  he 
placed  marked  emphasis  on  the  good  he  received  from  the 
pious  counsels  of  a  Mrs.  Sophrona  Gihnour  during  that 
transition  period. 

"  He  immediately"  united  with  the  Methodist  church  in 
Dundas,  a  connection  destined  to  be  severed  only  by  death. 
He  was  characterized  by  conscientious  fidelity,  from  the  hour 
of  his  conversion  devoting  himself  to  prayer,  fasting,  Bible 
reading,  and  earnest  efforts  for  the  salvation  of  souls.  His 
thoughts  evidently  ran  on  the  Christian  ministry  from  the 
time  that  he  was  brought  to  God. 

"  He  had  good  business  talents,  and  by  the  time  he  was 
twenty-one  he  had  enough  saved  to  enable  him  to  procure 
an  education,  the  last  two  years  of  which  were  spent  at 
Victoria  College,  where  he  was  distinguished  as  a  diligent 
and  successful  student,  and  as  being  useful  in  the  offices  of 
leader  and  exhorter,  and  finally  as  local  preacher,  going 
about  to  country  appointments  and  to  camp-meetings,  in 
which  he  always  much  delighted.  He  preached  his  first 
sermon  in  a  church  at  a  watch-night  service  which  closed 
the  year  1849  and  introduced  the  year  1850.  The  next 
August  he  was  employed  on  the  Chatham  Circuit  by  the 
Chairman  of  the  London  District." 

Amherstburg  seems  to  have  a  vacancy,  but  it  was  really 
supplied  by  the  devoted  Thomas  Stobbs,  who  has  been  already 
introduced  to  the  reader. 

130.  Only  one  circuit  in  the  Brantford  District  requires 
any  elucidation.  The  Minutes  for  the  year  assign  the 
superintendency  of  Woodstock  to  the  Rev.  Edwin  Clement ; 
while  it  is  certain  that  he  was  not  there,  it  is  also  certain 
that  the  venerable   and  excellent  Matthew   Whiting  occupied 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  73 

that  position,  but  the  "  one  to  be  sent "  to  his  assistance  we 
cannot  recall  or  learn. 

131.  We  have  seen,  that  although  Glanford  was  placed 
under  the  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  George  Young,  he  was 
removed  to  London  during  the  year,  and  the  Rev.  Wm,  Haw 
supplied  his  place.  The  Minutes  leave  "  one  to  be  sent "  to 
that  circuit.  Fortunately  a  young  man  of  some  twenty-five  or 
six  years  of  age,  less  or  more,  newly  from  Ireland,  well  edu- 
cated, who  ha  I  experience  of  school  teaching  and  preaching 
a?  a  local  preacher  in  his  own  country,  very  serious  and  de- 
vout, was  procured,  who  entered  upon  the  work  with 
diligence  and  fidelity  ;  and  though  his  tall,  dark  person  did 
not  seem  very  strong  he  was  destined  to  perform  at  least 
twenty  years  of  active  service  in  the  itinerant  field.  We  are 
presenting  the  Rev.  William  Creighton  to  our  readers  for  the 
first  time. 

132.  We  have  reason  to  believe  that  the  "one  to  be  sent," 
as  assistant  of  the  Rev.  John  Baxter,  on  the  Nanticoke 
Circuit,  was  George  Washington,  a  middle-aged  preacher 
from  Ireland,  who  had  been  an  itinerant  for  several 
years  among  the  "  Primitive  Wesleyans"  in  that  country. 
He  was  a  plain,  sound  preacher,  lively  and  affectionate, 
whom  the  people  liked.  We  hope  to  have  more  data  con- 
cerning him  ere  his  name  recurs. 

133.  The  Rev.  Wm.  Case's  assistant  at  Alderville  is  the 
only  one  we  require  to  have  placed  before  us  in  the  Cobourg 
District.  From  other  sources  than  the  Minutes,  we  learn. 
that  the  venerable  missionary  had  a  man  with  him  after  his 
own  heart,  in  the  person  of  his  junior  colleague ;  a  man  who 
was  destined  to  become  distinguished  in  the  Indian  mission 
field,  a  work  to  which  he  was  in  some  measure  adapted  by 
early  intercourse  with  the  Indians,  and  for  which  he  was  now 
seeking  further  preparation.  It  will,  perhaps,  be  already  sur- 
mised that  we  are  referring  to   one  whom  we  might  now, 

4 


74  -    CASE,    AND  \ 

almost,  denominate  the  martyred  George  Macdougall.  He 
is  believed  to  have  been  of  Scottish,  perhaps  Highland, 
parentage,  but  brought  up,  if  not  born,  in  this  country.  He 
had  been  converted  and  introduced  among  the  Methodists, 
some  years  before,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Barrie,  a  mere 
youth ;  but  he  married  early  and  had  been  in  business  some 
years.  That  he  was  married  and  had  two  or  more  children, 
was  the  objection  urged  by  some  members  of  the  Conference 
to  his  being  received  on  trial  for  the  ministry  ;  yet  these  very 
things  constituted  real  recommendations  for  the  Indian  de- 
partment of  the  work  for  which  he  offered  himself.  Though 
young,  he  had  had  several  years'  experience  of  business 
among  the  aborigines,  which  consisted  in  sailing  a  vessel 
upon  Lakes  Huron  and  Superior  employed  in  the  Indian 
trade.  Thishad given  him  considerable  acquaintance  with  their 
minds  and  manners,  and  some  knowledge  of  their  language. 
To  perfect  this  lingual  knowledge  was  one  reason  for  his 
being  sent,  with  the  father  of  Canadian  Missions,  to  this  old 
mission  station,  preparatory  for  his  distant  and  responsible 
labors  in  the  future.  His  wife's  excellent  character,  and 
his  own  physical  strength  and  hardihood  were  also  weights  in 
the  scale. 

134.  The  Minutes  account  for  the  provision  for  all  the 
circuit  in  the  Belleville  District,  excepting  how  the  second 
preacher's  place  was  supplied  in  the  old  Sidney  Circuit. 
The  lively  and  laborious  Michael  Fawcett  had  been  trans- 
ferred from  the  charge  of  Bowman ville  to  the  superintendency 
of  this  circuit,  where  he  was  well  and  favorably  known,  and 
which  was  the  commencement  of  seven  very  successful  years'_ 
labors  around  the  head  of  Bay  Quinte.  The  supply  sent  him 
was  a  young  man  small  in  stature  and  short-sighted,  but  of 
good  stock,  German-Irish,  of  good  character,  and  of  fair  abili- 
ties. This  was  our  well-conducted  friend,  Aaron  D.  Miller, 
who  has  continued  in  the  work  until  this  day. 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  75 

135.  The  Kingston  District  makes  neither  call  for,  nor 
promise  of  assistance  to  the  ministerial  staff  in  any  of  the 
circuits.  The  large  old  Waterloo  Circuit  had  but  one  name 
set  down  to  perform  the  duties  of  its  laborious  pastorate. 
True,  that  was  a  man  whom  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  did 
usually  as  much  pastoral  work,  at  least,  as  two  ordinary 
preachers.  This  was  the  indefatigable  Joseph  Wesley 
McCallum,  but  even  he  seems  to  have  required  a  colleague 
and  to  have  received  one  ;  and  received  it  in  the  person  of 
one  German,  by  name  if  not  by  descent,  who,  moreover,  bore 
the  baptismal  name  of  the  founder  of  Methodism,  John 
Wesley.  John  Wesley  German  was  the  son  of  that  one  of  the 
two  Peter  Germans  who  did  such  good  service  about  the 
Bay  Quinte  on  Canal  circuits,  in  the  capacity  of  a  hired  local 
preacher.  This  (his  son)  was  destined  to  be  one  of  the  most 
exact  and  successfully  laborious  preachers  on  the  good 
average  circuits  to  which  he  has  usually  been  sent. 

136.  Brockville  District  had  no  vacancies,  and  By  town  had 
only  one.  That  energetic  old  itinerant,  Henry  Shaler,  needed 
an  assistant  at  Osgoode,  and  received  .one,  as  large  as  he  was 
small,  in  the  person  of  Silas  Huntington,  a  native  Canadian, 
brought  up  near  Kemptville,  but  converted  amid  the  wilds 
of  the  Upper  Ottawa  only  one  year  before  his  entrance  on  a 
circuit.  He  was  naturally  clever,  and  had  received  a  fair 
commercial  education.  His  gifts  were  so  prominent  from  the 
first  that  a  society-class  for  the  neighborhood  in  which  he 
lived,  which  coincided  in  its  organization  with  his  union  with 
the  Church,  received  him  as  its  practical  leader,  while  the 
nominal  leadership  devolved  on  an  old  professor,  and  a  much 
older  man,  whose  own  talents  were  not  sufficiently  command- 
ing. The  development  of  young  Huntington's  abilities  in 
prayer,  counsel,  exhortation,  and  preaching,  within  the  short 
space  of  eleven  months,  led  to  his  being  selected  as  the  chair- 
man's supply  for  this  defectively  supplied  circuit.     We  opine 


76  CASE,    AND 

that  he  had  been  chosen  by  Mr.  Shaler  himself  as  his  helper 
from  the  knowledge  he  had  possessed  before  of  the  young 
man.  We  have  this  brother's  journal,  and  will  draw  on  it  to 
illustrate  the  work  in  coming  years. 

137.  The  Conference  had  received  the  thanks  of  the 
Canada  East  District  Meeting  for  the  services  of  the  Rev. 
Lachlin  Taylor  during  the  previous  two  years,  and  craved 
the  continuance  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Lavell  among  them  for 
a  second  year,  which  was  accorded  to  them.  Mr.  Taylor's 
health  being  somewhat  impaired,  he  received  from  the  Con^ 
ference,  according  to  his  request,  a  supernumerary  relation 
for  a  year,  and  he  retired  to  the  parental  home,  near  Cobourg, 
where  it  appeared,  after  a  few  months,  that  he  was  gathering 
physical  strength  and  intellectual  furniture  for  a  more  pro- 
minent position  and  a  wider  sphere  of  operation,  namely, 
the  General  Agency  of  the  Upper  Canada  Bible  Society,  of 
which  mare  anon. 

138.  The  humble-minded  and  amiable,  but  useful  John 
Black,  on  going  back  from  the  Conference  to  Sidney,  his 
previous  three  years'  scene  of  labor,  was  sent  to  his  new  field, 
Napanee,  with  testimonials  and  presents. 

139.  The  Union  Camp-meeting  for  the  Yonge  Street,  New 
market,  and  Humber  Circuits,  concerted  and  carried  out  soon 
after  Conference,  held  in  the  Township  of  Vaughan,  and 
attended  by  Brethren  Demorest,  Law,  Warner,  Ker,  and 
Wm.  Young,  was  of  a  most  delightful  character,  and  followed 
by  reviving  influences. 

140.  The  Burlington  Ladies'  Academy,  still  under  the 
management  of  the  Rev.  Daniel  C.  Van  Norman,  skilled  in 
that  description  of  work,  rendered  great  service  to  the 
country  at  large,  and  especially  to  the  Methodist  Church, 
being  prosecuted  with  great  vigor  and  success. 

141.  Under  the  date  of  July  27th,  1850,  the  Rev.  Eger- 
ton  Ryerson,  D.D.,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Wesleyan 


HIS    COTEMPOEAEIES.  77 

Conference,  was  appointed  by  government  proclamation  to 
the  "  Chief  Superintendency  of  Schools  for  Upper  Canada, 
under  the  Act  of  the  present  session  of  Parliament,  for  the 
better  establishment  and  management  of  schools  in  that 
Province." 

142.  It  was  one  indication  of  prosperity  during  this  period 
of  our  Church's  history,  that  the  augmentation  of  the  mis- 
sionary income  enabled  the  General  Missionary  Committee 
to  increase  the  grants  to  the  laborers  in  certain  needy  cases. 
The  Society  was  reported  out  of  debt. 

143.  Authoritative  news  came  from  England,  after  the 
session  of  the  British  Conference,  that  the  Rev.  Enoch 
AVood  was  appointed  President  of  the  Canada  Conference 
and  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson  was  appointed  his  Co-Delegate. 

144.  A  new  church  was  opened  on  the  Fly  Road,  Town- 
ship of  Clinton,  on  Sabbath,  September  the  eighth.  And  the 
noble  Sydenham  Street  Church,  in  Kingston,  was  built  dur- 
ing this  Conference  year. 

145.  The  appointment  of  Mr.  Nelles  to  the  Principalship 
of  Victoria  College  received  the  good  augury  of  an  increased 
number  of  students  during  the  summer  session. 

146.  A  revival  was  reported  on  the  Augusta  Circuit  as 
early  as  October  ;  as  also,  in  the  same  month,  at  Allenburgh, 
on  the  St.  Catharines  Circuit,  likewise  on  several  other  cir- 
cuits, the  names  of  which  have  escaped  us. 

147.  A  very  encouraging  letter  from  the  Rev.  Peter 
Jones,  Indian  missionary,  showing  the  progress  of  civiliza- 
tion and  the  large  amount  of  material  comfort  and  pros- 
perity, as  well  as  religious  advancement  which  obtained 
among  the  people  who  composed  that  band,  appeared  in  the 
Guardian. 

148.  Wesley  Church,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Grand 
River,  near  the  Village  of  Cayuga,  was  built  during  the  sum- 
mer, and  dedicated  in  the  autumn  of  1850. 


78  CASE,  AND 

149.  A  very  satisfactory  camp-meeting,  near  Owen  Sound, 
conducted  by  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood,  took  place  during  the 
time  we  have  under  consideration. 

150.  A  very  powerful  meeting  of  the  above  description 
was  held  about  this  time  in  the  Manning  Settlement,  within 
the  Town  of  London  Circuit,  intended  to  accommodate  the 
St.  Thomas  and  Aylmer  Circuits  as  well,  which  was  at- 
tended by  a  large  measure  of  sanctifying  influence  on 
preachers  and  people.  It  aroused,  however,  the  hostility  of 
some  bad  men,  who  revenged,  for  being  restrained  by  the 
hand  of  civil  authority,  by  their  damaging  a  buggy  and 
cutting  a  set  of  harness  to  pieces,  which  they  supposed  to 
belong  to  the  writer,  who  had  the  meeting  in  charge.  By 
the  13th  of  January,  1851,  this  circuit  had  netted  a  gain  of 
fifty  members  in  town  and  an  increase  in  all  the  country 
appointments. 

151.  Brother  John  Black,  whose  transfer  to  Napanee  we 
have  considered,  with  his  youthful  colleague,  Joseph  Rey- 
nolds, was  cheered  by  a  most  gracious  revival  on  that  im- 
portant field  of  labor. 

152.  The  missionary  anniversaries  were  conducted  with 
great  enthusiasm  throughout  the  Connexion,  and  a  corre- 
sponding pecuniary  and  spiritual  gain  was  realized. 

153.  The  Saugeen  Mission,  which  had  been  in  a  state  of 
spiritual  decline  for  some  time,  was  greatly  quickened  dur- 
ing the  course  of  this  year. 

154.  About  mid-winter,  a  glowing  letter  came  from  the 
aged  Chairman  of  the  Brockville  District,  Rev.  Thomas 
Bevitt,  a  man  not  predisposed  to  paint  things  in  rose  color, 
giving  a  cheering  account  of  the  aspects  of  the  cause,  both 
local  and  Connexional,  throughout  his  district. 

155.  A  brick  parsonage  was  erected  on  the  Markham  Cir- 
cuit, and  Connexional  and  local  interests  were  prosperous. 

156.  The  ksame   may   be   said   of  the   accounts   received 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  79 

from  the  Stratford,  Brampton,  St.  Thomas,  and  Dundas  Cir- 
cuits. 

•157.  The  new  chapel  in  the  Village  of  Chippewa  was 
opened  daring  February,  1851.  There  was  a  marked  revi- 
val on  the  Oshawa  Circuit  during  this  Conference  year. 

158.  In  fine,  there  was  good  news  from  Malahide,  Peel 
Mission,  Norwood,  Newborough,  Bowman ville,  (where  a  new 
church  was  erected,)  Rama,  and  Orillia,  G-lanford,  Cornwall, 
Moulinette. — A  new  church  was  dedicated  in  Cline's  neigh- 
borhood, on  the  Nelson  Circuit,  and  Brampton  had  great 
prosperity . 

159.  We  have  followed  the  brethren  in  their  efforts  for 
Connexional  advancement,  in  church  building,  education, 
Connexional  funds,  and  missionary  extension ;  but  their 
direct  efforts  for  the  salvation  of  souls  and  the  upbuilding  of 
the  societies  must  have  been  equally  energetic  and  persis- 
tent, for  there  was,  at  least,  the  very  respectable  net  gain  o  f 
one  thousand  one  hundred  and  seventy  souls  to  the  several 
societies  of  the  Connexion  during  the  year  1850-51,  of  which 
we  write. 

160.  We  turn  now  to  see  what  can  be  made  of  the  doings 
and  successes  of  the  Wesleyan  ministers  and  preachers  in  the 
Province  of  Eastern  Oanada  during  the  same  period.  The 
first  item  of  information  relating  to  this  section  of  the  work 
is  found  in  the  Christian  Guardian  for  May  29th,  1850 — 
it  relates  to  the  District  Meeting  with  which  the  ecclesiasti- 
cal year  began,  and  is  embraced  in  the  next  paragraph  : — 

161.  "The  Canada  East  District  Meeting  has  closed  its 
Annual  Session.  It  will  be  recollected  that  the  Rev. 
Matthew  Lang,  Chairman  of  the  District,  was  recently  sum- 
moned by  the  Great  Head  of  the  Church  from  the  Church 
militant  to  the  Church  triumphant.  Owing  to  his  lamented 
death,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richey,  President  of  our  Conference, 
proceeded  to  Quebec,  and  presided  at  the  District  Meeting. 


80  CASE,   AND 

Unanimity  and  peace  prevailed.  The  following  are  the  sta- 
tions of  the  brethren  in  Canada  East  for  1850-51  : — 

"  Montreal — John  Jenkins,  Charles  De  Wolfe,  A.M.,  and 
Charles  Lavell. 

"  Quebec — Charles  Churchill. 

"  Three  Rivers — Thomas  Campbell. 

"  Wesleyville  and  Rawdon — Henry  Cox. 

"  St.  Johns- — George  H.  Davis. 

"  Chambly — John  Douglas, 

"  Huntingdon — James  Brock. 

"  Russeltown — Hugh  Montgomery. 

"  Odelltown  and  Hemming  ford — J.  C.  Davidson. 

"  Clarenceville — Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 

"St.  Armands — William  Scott. 

"  Dunham — John  Tomkins  and  John  Armstrong. 

"  She  ford—  R.  A.  Flanders. 

"  Stanstead — John  Borland. 

'•  Compton — Malcolm  McDonald. 

"  Sherbrooke — Henry  Lanton. 

"  Melbourne — Benjamin  Slight,  A.M.     — 

"  Leeds—  Gifford  Dorey." 

162.  There  is  not  much  in  this  brief  entry  which  calls  for 
or  admits  of  remark.  We  discover  that  the  meeting  was 
held  in  the  ancient  capital  somewhere  about  the  middle  of 
May,  but  the  precise  time  of  its  beginning  and  ending  we  do 
not  learn.  We  miss  the  laborious  Chairman,  who  has  gone 
to  his  rest,  as  also  Brother  George  Douglas,  who  is  abroad 
in  the  Bermudas,  but  no  new  names  are  observable  :  all  the 
brethren  whose  names  are  given  are  persons  with  whose  ante- 
cedents and  character  the  reader  has  been  made  acquainted. 

163.  All  the  usual  sources  of  information  have  been  re- 
sorted to  for  details  of  the  manner,  and  to  see  with  what 
success  the  work  was  prosecuted  during  the  year,  and  all 
have  failed  us  but  two.     First,  the  Guardian  informs  us  of 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  81 

a  crlorious  revival  in  the  City  of  Montreal,  during  the  year, 
aided  by  the  presence  and  labors  of  the  Rev.  James  Caughey, 
of  revival  celebrity,  who  had  been  made  of  signal  service  in 
that  city  before  ;  secondly,  the  journal  of  the  Rev.  B.  Slight, 
A.M.,  the  entire  of  whose  entries  for  the  year  we  insert,  as 
a  probably  fair  specimen  of  the  manner  in  which  the^Lower 
Canada  brethren  performed  their  work.  It  will  be  per- 
ceived that  Mr.  Slight  was  still  at  Melbourne.  His  record 
is  as  follows  : — 

164.  "  January  19th,  1851. — Finished  our  annual  mission- 
ary tour. — Travelled  two  hundred  and  sixteen  miles. — 
Preached  three  missionary  sermons — ten  or  twelve  mission- 
ary speeches.  The  congregations  were  generally  large,  and 
the  meetings  increasing  in  interest.  On  our  own  circuit 
the  meetings  were  the  best  in  the  whole  round.  The  tea- 
meeting  at  Durham  was  specially  good.  The  number  attend- 
ing surprised  us  all.  The  clear  proceeds  were  £7.  7s.  6d." 
(825.50),  "  the  largest  sum  ever  realized  on  this  circuit,  except 
once  when  it  was  a  few  shillings  above."  Surely  it  could 
not  have  been  a  very  productive  circuit  as  it  respected  money. 
But  Mr.  B.  resumes  : — 

165.  '■  March. — This  circuit  has  evidently  been  increasing 
in  good  feeling  and  attendance  on  the  means.  The  truths 
of  the  Gospel  are  listened  to  with  intense  interest.  I  have 
usually,  of  late,  had  unusual  liberty  and  power  in  preaching. 
All  these  things  warrant  me  to  hope  for  some  good. 

166.  '•'  A  review  of  these  circumstances  encouraged  me  to 
hold  some  special  services  at  Kingsey  and  Durham.  I  con- 
tinued them  six  days  at  the  former  place.  I  never  saw  a 
congregation  so  unusually  impressed.  About  twenty  have 
promised  to  meet  on  probation.  I  hope  many  more  will 
speedily  decide  to  be  on  the  Lord's  side. 

167.  "  March  21st. — I  am  not  indisposed  to  acknowledge 
the  labors  of  the  ministers  of  other  Churches.     But  when  I 

4* 


82  CASE,    AND 

see  anything  like  display,  it  affords  disgust.  In  a  newspaper 
I  lately  met  with  an  article  setting  forth  the  uncommon 
labors  of  a  Congregational  minister  in  Canada  West,  the 
evident  animus  is  to  be  entitled  to  adopt  as  a  motto,  '  In 
labors  more  abundant.'     It  is  as  follows  : — 

168.  "  '  Preached  (1850)  153  sermons  ;  attended  temper- 
ance, church,  and  prayer  meetings,  42  ;  visited,  read,  and 
prayed  with  298  families,  and  baptized  14  children;  preached 
5  funeral  sermons;  received  into  the  Church  32  new  members; 
travelled  3,400  miles;  114  days  and  nights  from  home!' 
Then  he  enumerates  a  few  books,  mostly  of  small  importance, 
which  he  had  read,  amounting  in  number  to  about  thirteen 
volumes,  with  sermons,  comments,  &c,  and  three  newspapers. 

169.  "All  these  things  appear  to  be  noticed  with  care, 
for  the  purpose  of  effect.  To  be  sure,  it  is  far  in  advance  of 
the  generality  of  Congregational  ministers  in  this  country  • 
but  let  me  recollect  something  of  my  own  labors.  Are  not 
Methodist  preachers  in  general  considerably  in  advance  ? 

170.  "  I  preached  in  this  circuit  each  year  about  350 
sermons;  special,  church,  and  other  meetings,  from  130  to 
150  ;  pastoral  visitations  numerous  ;  funeral  sermons,  8  or 
10  ;  marriages,  8  to  10 ;  received  on  trial,  about  30  to  40 ; 
travelled  about  5,000  miles  or  more;  about  150  nights  from 
home,  and  about  300  days  ;  reading  quite  as  voluminous,  and 
writing  extensive  in  many  departments. 

171.  "God  speaks  to  us  by  His  word,  and  sometimes 
directs  us  to  particular  passages.  One  Monday  morning 
lately,  as  I  was  reflecting  rather  sadly  on  the  state  of  things 
and  the  many  untoward  circumstances  which  existed  here 
when  I  entered  on  the  circuit,  I  took  up  a  New  Testament 
and  opened  on  the  words,  '  For  this  purpose  I  left  thee  in 
Crete,  that  thou  shouldst  set  in  order  the  things  which  are 
wanting.'  From  this  I  thought  it  might  have  been  provi- 
dential  that  I  was   appointed  to  this  circuit.     To  rectify 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  83 

wrong  things,  to  exercise  discipline,  to  set  things  on  a 
proper  footing,  <fcc,  itrc,  are  things  of  moment.  One  Friday 
or  Saturday  morning  lately  I  took  up  the  Bible,  after  having 
been  some  time  in  prayer  for  direction  to  a  proper  subject 
for  the  ensuing  Sabbath,  and  opened  upon  :  '  Occupy  till  I 
come  ; '  and  opening  again,  immediately  after,  the  first  pas- 
sage that  struck  my  eye  was,  '  These  things  teach  and 
exhort !  '  I  took  the  passage  for  my  text,  and  the  sermon 
appeared  to  be  attended  with  much  power. 

172.  "  May  26th,  1851. — Finished  making  up  my  returns 
for  district  meeting.  On  reviewing  the  last  three  years  on 
this  circuit,  I  find  I  have  received  on  trial  59  persons — have 
had  29  removals,  12  deaths,  and  about  55  expelled  and 
dropped.  The  present  number  of  members  is  270,  and  4  on 
trial.  The  number  when  I  entered  was  262 — 8  increase. 
From  the  careless-  manner  in  which  the  returns  were  made 
by  my  predecessor,  I  have  had  to  clear  the  lists  of  a  large 
number  of  names  that  ought  not  to  have  been  left  on  them, 
otherwise  my  total  increase  would  have  been  much  larger. 
Danville  has  been  left  without  a  supply  for  two  years,  and 
I  have  lost  twenty  in  that  portion  of  the  country  from 
want  of  pastoral  oversight.  Although  I  have  had  to  give 
up  all  receipts  on  the  Danville  side  of  the  circuit,  yet, 
taking  the  Melbourne  side  of  the  circuit  alone,  I  find  our 
income  is  now  .£14  (856)  in  advance  of  the  year  before 
my  taking  the  charge,  which  was  then  receiving  £10  ($40) 
from  the  Danville  portion  of  the  circuit.  The  spiritual 
state  of  the  circuit,  I  have  satisfaction  in  reporting,  is  much 
improved.  There  is  much  increase  of  unction  and  power 
attending  the  ministration  of  the  Word  and  ordinances,  and 
a  deeply-fixed  attention  to  them.  I  am  thankful  to  leave 
the  circuit  better  than  I  found  it " — a  pleasing  reflection 
this  with  which  to  close  a  ministerial  term  of  three  years  ! 

173.  Taking  this  as   a  specimen  of  how  and  with  what 


84  CASE,    AND 

• 

anxiety  the  brethren  toiled  through  the  twelve  months  from 
June,  1850,  to  June,  1851,  we  feel  anxious  to  know  how  il 
resulted,  and  turn  to  the  Minutes  of  1851  to  ascertain;  anS 
lo  !  we  find  there  is  a  decrease  of  eighty  members  !  Then 
total  was  3,769,  which,  added  to  the  Canada  Conference 
returns  of  26,213,  made  scarcely  thirty  thousand — or  39,982 
members  in  the  two  Provinces. 

1851-52. 
174.  The  commencement  of  the  first  seven  years  of  the 
uninterrupted    presidency  of   the    Rev.    Enoch   (afterwards 
Doctor)  "Wood  coincided  with  the  twenty-seventh  session  ol 
the   Canada    Conference,   which   commenced    in    Adelaide 
Street  Church,  Toronto,  whose  sittings  began  on  the  4th  oi 
June,   1851,  and  closed  on  the   13th  of  the  same  month, 
covering  a  period  of  nine  days,   including  a  Sabbath.     Mr. 
Wood  proved  himself  a  very  satisfactory  presiding  officer; 
naturally  sage  and  overseer-like,  he  had  enjoyed  four  years' 
acquaintance  with  Anglo-Canadian  Methodism ;  this,  with 
his  peace-loving  disposition  and  aptness  to  learn  from  the 
discussions  themselves  as  they  went  forward,  enabled  him  to 
conduct  the  business  of  Conference  to  a  desirable  issue  and 
with  reasonable  despatch.     At  this  Conference  every  Con- 
nexional  fund  was  found  to  be  in  advance  of  former  years. 
175.  A  respectable   and    observing   layman,    long  before 
identified  with  the  interests  of  Methodism  in  the  Province, 
who,  after  an  absence  from  Upper  Canada  for  several  years, 
chanced  to  be  called  by  the  Government  office  which  he  held 
to    sojourn   in    Toronto    at    the    time    of    this    Conference, 
expressed  some  thoughts  in  the   Guardian  relative  to  the 
character  of  that  session,  which,  because  of  their  justness, 
I  will  take  the  liberty  of  transferring  to  these  pages.     Mr. 
Vaux  (for  that  was  the  gentleman's  name)  holds  the  follow- 
ing language  :  "  One  of  the  first  and  most  pleasing  features, 
as   presented   to  my  mind,  was   the   harmony   that  dwelt 


HIS    COTEMPORAEIES.  85 

among  the  brethren ;  one  heart  seemed  to  pervade  the  whole. 
They  had  no  party  purposes  to  serve.  The  only  purpose, 
and  in  which  all  joined,  was  evidently  the  building  up  and 
maintaining  the  kingdom  of  the  Redeemer.  *  *  *  Being 
privileged  to  attend  the  Conference  prayer-meetings  and 
love-feast,  it  was  matter  of  rejoicing  to  witness  the  spirit 
and  simplicity  which  reigned  throughout.  *  *  *  In 
reflecting  upon  and  comparing  the  present  state  of  the  work 
under  the  care  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  in  this 
Province  with  the  earliest  period  of  which  we  have  the 
Conference  records  (in  1824),  I  am  sure  every  one  having 
the  extension  of*  the  Redeemer's  kingdom  at  heart  will 
praise  Him  who,  verifying  Mr.  Wesley's  assurance,  has 
continued  to  be,  and  still  is,  'with  us.'  In  1824  we  find 
thirty-six  of  the  Lord's  laborers  in  the  vineyard,  and  7,150 
in  church-membership;  now,  in  1851,  there  are  200  laborers 
and  26,213  members.  *  *  *  I  expect  shortly  again  to 
leave  this  part  of  the  Province.  May  God  bless  the  labors 
and  strengthen  the  hands  of  His  servants,  and  sanctify  the 
Church  wholly!" 

176.  After  many  years'  service  as  Journal  Secretary,  the 
Conference  conferred  the  honor  of  the  principal  Secretary- 
ship on  the  Rev.  James  Musgrove,  who  was  eminently  quali- 
fied for  its  duties,  and  who  had  earned  this  expression  of 
confidence  by  twenty  years  of  faithful  ministerial  labor, 
embracing  several  official  responsibilities.  He  also  per- 
formed the  duties  of  this  new  position  with  dignity  and 
despatch. 

177.  Three  brethren,  after  the  usual  four  years'  probation 
with  the  Conference,  were  received  into  full  connexion  and 
ordained.  These  were  John  Webster,  John  G.  Osborne,  and 
William  McGill,  with  all  of  whom  the  reader  has  been  made 
acquainted.  There  was  also  an  exceptional  case.  Brother 
Henry  Reid — who,  from  various  causes,  principally  because 


86  CASE,    AND 

• 

he  was  married  and  had  a  family — had  been  kept  in  the 
relation  of  a  hired  local  preacher — now,  after  seven  years1 
service  in  the  hardest  of  the  trash  circuits,  was  also  received 
into  full  connexion  and  ordained.  He  had  proved  himself 
strong  and  willing  to  labor,  a  good  preacher,  and  very 
successful  in  winning  souls.  Each  of  these  brethren  spoke 
in  considerable  detail  and  with  great  feeling  at  their  public 
reception. 

178.  There  was  a  most  formidable  array  of  names  pre- 
sented as  candidates  for  reception  on  trial  for  the  ministrj 
in  connection  with  the  Conference — no  less  than  nineteen  in 
all, — namely :  Richard  Clarke,  Joel  Briggg,  George  McRitchie, 
David  Sawyer,  Alexander  Campbell,  Thomas  Crews,  James 
Preston,  John  S.  Evans,  D.  G.  Fletcher,  William  Sanderson, 
George  McDougal,  Aaron  Miller,  John  Wesley  German 
Robert  Brewster,  David  Robertson,  Silas  Huntington,  Andreu 
McAllister,  Henry  McDowell,  and  Robert  Hobbs. 

179.  Six  of  these,  namely:  Joel  Briggs,  John  S.  Evans, 
George  McDougal,  Aaron  Miller,  John  W.  German,  and  S. 
Huntington,  as  having  been  employed  by  chairmen  on  cir- 
cuits the  preceding  year,  have  already  had  their  antecedents 
and  character  considered.  And  it  is  now  recollected  oi 
ascertained  that  four  others  also  rendered  similar  service 
during  the  same  period,  namely  :  George  McRitchie,  Davia 
Sawyer,  Alexander  Campbell,  and  Thomas  Crews.  The  firsl 
three  spent  the  whole  of  the  past  year  on  circuits,  the  lasi 
one  the  latter  half  of  that  year. 

180.  Indeed,  Alexander  Campbell  had  been  called  out  sc 
early  as  1846,  under  which  year  we  gave  an  account  of  his 
nationality,  qualities,  and  early  history.  From  some  caus( 
he  retired  during  1850-51.  He  is  taken  up  again,  anc 
destined  to  complete  his  term  of  probation,  and  to  be  fullj 
received  into  the  body,  and  to  perform  several  more  years  o: 


HIS    COTEMPORAKIES.  87 

useful  labor.     His  apparent  health  and  great  strength  little 
augured  that  he  would  fall  suddenly  in  middle  life. 

181.  David  Sawyer,  an  Indian  preacher,  had  also  been  in 
charge  of  a  mission  among  his  native  brethren,  not  the  last 
only,  but  the  last  two  years — called  the  first  year  by  the 
name  of  "  Owen  Sound,"  the  second  by  that  of  "  Newark." 
Mr.  Sawyer,  himself  a  chief,  was  a  son  of  old  Chief  Sawyer, 
of  the  Credit  tribe,  who  was  baptized  in  childhood,  while 
living  in  a  white  family,  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Sawyer,  one  of 
the  early  presiding  elders,  who  gave  him  his  own  name. 
Our  present  subject,  at  the  time  of  his  reception  on  trial, 
could  not  have  been  less  than  from  forty-two  to  forty-five 
years  of  age ;  nor  were  the  last  two  years'  labors  the  first 
he  had  performed  for  the  Church,  as  the  writer  remembers 
him  to  have  been  sent  on  distant  missionary  expeditions,  by 
the  ever-watchful  Elder  Case,  so  early  as  the  summer  of 
1827.  At  that  time  he  acted  as  interpreter,  exhorter,  and 
school  teacher.  In  these  capacities  there  are  frequent  letters 
from  him  in  our  foregoing  history.  He  was  a  comely  native, 
and  sizable. 

182.  Bro.  Thomas  Crews  had  been  taken  from  his  manual 
labor  in  Goderich,  during  the  winter  of  1850-51,  by  Mr. 
Carroll,  the  Chairman  of  the  London  District,  to  meet  the 
urgent  solicitations  of  a  neglected  people  in  Kincardine,  of 
whom  Mr.  Crews  gave  a  good  account  at  the  next  May 
district  meeting.  The  calling  out  of  Mr.  Crews  was  some- 
what of  an  adventure.  He  was,  it  is  true,  a  trained, 
acceptable  local  preacher  from  Old  England  ;  but  then  he 
was  at  least  twenty-six  years  of  age,  was  married,  and  had 
not  been  liberally  educated.  The  few  months  of  his  experi- 
mental labors  had,  however,  wrought  a  great  change  in  him  ; 
his  short,  compact,  comely  person  had  assumed  clerical 
habiliments  and  appearance ;  his  fair  preaching  talents  had 
been  encouragingly  developed,  and  he  had  made  a  promising 


88  CASE,    AND 

offer  to  conquer  the  Conference  course  of  study,  which  he 
ultimately  mastered  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  examiners. 
The  result  was,  the  Conference  received  him  and  sent  him 
back  to  the  mission  he  had  opened,  where  he  remained 
another  two  years.     J.  S.  Evans'  case  is  well  known. 

183.  As  to  George  McRitchie,*we  simply  adopt  part  of  the 
sketch  of  him  after  he  had  risen  to  be  a  chairman  of  District 
and  member  of  the  General  Conference  in  1874  : — 

"  He  was  born  in  Dundee,  Scotland,  in  1827,  which  makes 
him  at  the  present,*  forty-seven.  Just  twenty  years  after 
his  birth,  here  in  Canada,  he  became  a  Methodist,  under  the 
ministrations  of  Rev.  Wm.  Young  Two  years  after  he  was 
licensed  as  an  exhorter.  In  another  year  he  was  a  local 
preacher,  and  within  a  few  weeks  after,  sent  by  the  Rev. 
John  Ryerson  to  the  Georgetown  Circuit. 

"  All  the  Scotch  preachers  we  have  had  to  portray  are 
clever  men  ;  as  a  preacher  this  gentleman  is  one  of  the  best. 
He  does  not  promise  a  great  deal  now,  to  look  at  him ;  and 
he  promised  a  great  deal  less  when  he  commenced  his  career. 
But  he  has  grown  to  be  the  thoughtful,  original,  and  quick- 
ening preacher.  He  has  not  so  much  energy  in  delivery, 
but  there  is  much  in  the  thoroughness  in  which  he  "  bolts 
his  subjects  to  the  brain,"  as  the  old  divine  would  say,  which 
reminds  us  of  the  late  Henry  Wilkinson.  Nor  is  he  unlike 
him  in  appearance ;  he  is  perhaps  a  little  taller,  but  his 
muscle  is  equally  attenuated  and  hardened,  and  his  com- 
plexion is  equally  as  dark.  We  believe,  also,  he  is  equally 
as  good  a  man,  which  is  saying  a  great  deal." 

Brother  McRitchie  gave  promise  of  what  he  afterwards 
became,  before  his  trial  year  was  ended  on  the  Georgetown 
Circuit.  Part  of  his  probation  was  destined  to  enjoy  the 
improving  advantages  of  Victoria  College. 

184.  So  far  as  we  have  learned,  Richard  Clarke,  James 

*  Twenty-three  when  called  out. 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  89 

Preslon  D.  G.  Fletcher,  Wm.  Sanderson,  Robert  Brewster, 
Andrew  McAllister,  Henry  McDowell,  and  Robert  Hobbs* 
had  not  been  employed  on  circuits.  Clarke,  Sanderson,  Mc- 
Dowell, and  Hobbs,  were  either  born  in  Ireland,  or  -were  of . 
Irish  parents ;  Preston  was  English ;  Robertson  a  Cana- 
dian ;  and  McAllister,  we  know  not  what  as  to  nationality, 
most  likely,  either  a  Scotch,  or  North  Irish-Canadian. 

185.  Richard  Clarke,  next  to  Mr.  Preston,  had  more  ex- 
perience and  ability  as  a  preacher  than  any  of  the  candidates. 
He  was  of  the  mature  age  01  twenty-eight,  but  healthy  and 
blooming  to  a  degree.  His  compact,  strong  body,  and  clear, 
ringing  voice,  coming  out  of  a  deep  chest,  gave  hope  of  long 
and  vigorous  labors.  He  had  realized  a  diversified  Metho- 
dist experience — converted  among  the  Primitive  Wesleyans 
in  Ireland,  with  whom  he  remained  until  his  emigration  to 
Canada  some  years  before.  He  allied  himself  to  the  Wes- 
lean  Society  in  Canada  East,  and  enjoyed  the  watchful  care 
and  familiar  confidence  of  the  sturdy  Wesleyan  ministers  in 
such  cities  as  Quebec,  Three  Rivers,  and  Montreal.  In  the 
prosecution  of  his  business,  as  clerk  and  salesman,  he  found 
his  way  to  Toronto,  where  he  exercised  as  a  local  preacher 
in  connection  with  the  strong  society  of  the  Richmond  Street 
Church,  by  whose  Official  Board  he  was  recommended  to  the 
Conference.  Brother  Clarke,  besides  being  educated  better 
than  most  of  the  candidates,  was  particularly  well-read  in 
theology.  The  first  part  of  this  Conference  year,  he  was 
the  much  approved  colleague  of  the  Rev.  S.  D.  Rice,  in 
Kingston,  and  after  the  opening  of  the  McNabb  Street 
Church  in  Hamilton,  a  second  preacher  being  required,  he 
was  transferred  to  be  my  own  assistant  in  that  city. 

'Since  the  ahove  was  written,  a  post-card  from  the  veteran  Shaler 
informs  us  that  Andrew  McAllister  assisted  him  on  the  Osgoode  Mis- 
sion in  1850,  and  Robert  Hobbs  labored  in  the  same  capacity  during 
the  year  1851-52. 


90  CASE,    AND 

186.  ofjariies  Preston,  we  must  also  make  his  General 
Conference  portraiture  do  duty: — Premising  that  he' was 
then  twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  that  he  was  twenty- 
three  years  younger  than  when  his  personal  appearance  was 
described  as  below,  we  adopt  the  sketch  then  made  :— 

"He  is  from  a  thoroughly  Methodist  English  county, 
Lancashire,  and  the  town  of  Lancaster  itself.  He  is  only 
forty-six  years  old,*  thirty  of  which  he  has  enjoyed  the  sav- 
ing grace  of  God.  Was  cradled  in  Methodism,  Sunday-^ 
school  scholar,  at  nineteen  a  local  preacher.  In  1850  wasre- 
commended  by  the  Lancaster  Quarterly  Meeting  to  the  work 
of  the  ministry,  passed  his  preliminary  examinations  before 
the  Liverpool  District  Meeting,  and  was  recommended  by 
them  to  the  British  Conference,  but  decided  to  come  and 
help  us  in  Canada.  At  the  ensuing  meeting  of  the  Canada 
Conference,  in  1851,  he  was  received  on  trial,  and.  stationed 
in  the  town  of  Brantford. 

"  Mr.  P.  is  a  sound,  scriptural  preacher,  who  wears  well, 
exemplary  Christian,  and  diligent  pastor.  He  has  been^Dis- 
trict  Secretary  and  Chairman.  He  is  an  impressive  reader,_ 
especially  of  our  liturgical  services.  No  man  enjoys  the  re- 
spect pf  his  acquaintances  more  than  does  Mr.  Preston.  He 
is  a  stout,  light-complexioned  gentleman,  comely  enough  j 
but,  when  speaking,  has  a  slight  twitching  in  the  muscles  of 
one  of  his  cheeks.  The  excellence  of  his  matter,  however, 
soon  withdraws  the  hearer's  thoughts  from  this  very  small 
'  thorn  in  the  flesh.'  " 

187.  As  Drummond  G.  Fletcher  continued  but  a  few  years 
in  the  work,  and  as  I  know  not  his  place  of  retirement,  if,, 
alive  (although  I  surmise  he  is  alive,  and  a  local  preacher),  I 
know  not  where  to  address  him  for  information.  ■    From  a 
slight   acquaintance    with   him    (subject    to   correction),    X| 
should  pronounce  him  a  personable  man,  above  the  medium;* 

*Inl874. 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  91 

stature,  genteel  in  manners,  well-educated,  well-read,  and 
possessed  of  good  conversational  powers,  but  either  married 
or  a  widower  when  called  out.  I  should  call  him  of  Scotch 
descent,  but  brought  up  near  Bowmanville,  and  I  suspect  a 
good  speaker.  ' 

188.  Wm.  Sanderson  was  the  son  of  the  Rav.  John  San- 
derson, the  first,  not  large  in  person,  and  very  young.  Also, 
not  being  very  strong,  he  was  destined,  after  a  time,  to  have 
to  Be-by  to  recuperate  for  two  or  three  years  before  he  re  - 
sumed  the  work  again.  He  was  a  pure,  good  lad,  of  earnest 
intentions,  and  of  moderate,  if  not  medium,  abilities.  He 
will  come  favorably  to  view  hereafter. 

189.  Robert  Brewster,  after  earning  a  worthy  record,  went 
to  the  United  States ;  so  that  we  have  lost  the  m.3an3  o 
readily  learning  his  antecedents.  He  was  certainly  of  Scotch 
parentage,  and,  if  our  recollections  are  not  greatly  at  fault, 
brought  up  somewhere  near  Newboro'.  He  was  a  me- 
dium-sized, well-proportioned  young  man,  fair  of  face,  with' 
dark  hair,  serious  in  deportment,  very  voluble  in  speaking, 
and  full  of  zeal  for  God  and  souls.  If  he  had  been  less  volu- 
ble and  rapid,  his  great  impressiveness  would  have  been 
still  greater.  He  was  destined  to  rank  above  the  average  in 
talents  and  for  the  circuits  he  commanded. 

190.  Alas,  poor  Andrew  McAllister.  He  was,  we  sur- 
mise, either  a  Scotch  or  North-Irish-Canadian.  He  was  des- 
tined to  wear  himself  out  on  the  large  Clarendon  and  On- 
slow Mission  in  one  year — to  drag  out  the  next  year  in  ill- 
health — and  to  die  within  the  third  year  thereafter.  He 
had  no  further  register  in  the  Minutes,  but  we  trust  his  re- 

I  'cord  is  on  high. 

i  191.  Robert  Hobbs  was  of  an  Irish  Methodist  family,  brother 
of  the  devoted  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Howes,  brought  up 
in  Clarendon,  Lower  Canada.  Not  very  large  or  strong, 
and  only  about  twenty-one  years  of  age  when  he  went,  the 


92  CASE,    AND 

year  before,  to  the  assistance  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Shaler  or 
the  Osgoode  Mission.  The  rest  I  leave  his  Conference  obit- 
uary to  say : — "  He  was  born  in  Clarendon,  Canada  East 
in  1830,  and  converted  under  the  ministry  of  the  Rev.  Wm. 
Morton  in  1843,  from  which  time  until  his  death  he  con 
tinued  walking  in  the  fear  of  God  and  the  comfort  of  the 
Holy  Ghost.  He  labored  nearly  two  years  in  the  capacity 
of  a  local  preacher,  prior  to  his  being  called  into  the  more 
active  work." 

192.  David  Robertson  was  a  very  young  man,  but  almosi 
a  giant  for  size  and  stature ;  yet,  alas,  his  herculean  strengtl 
was  soon  brought  to  succumb  to  the  toils  and  exposures  of  the 
itinerancy.  Not  having  much  acquaintance  with  him  person 
ally,  I  simply  copy  a  part  of  his  short  Conference  obituary  :— 
"  D.  R.  was  born  near  the  Village  of  Kemptville,  in  the 
year  1829.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  sought  and  obtained 
redemption  in  the  blood  of  Christ.  In  1850,  he  was  em 
ployed  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Brockville  District  to  laboi 
on  the  Mississippi  Circuit ;  at  the  ensuing  Conference  he 
was  received  on  trial  and  appointed  to  the  same  circuit." 

193.  On  page  473,  of  the  fourth  volume  of  this  work,  the 
author  made  the  regretted  blunder  of  using  Henry  Mc- 
Dowell's name  instead  of  his  brother  David  C.  McDowell's 
who  was  received  on  trial  that  year ;  that  is,  five  years  be- 
fore our  present  date.  David,  therefore,  one  of  our  natu- 
rally gifted  young  preachers,  one  of  the  purest  of  men,  and 
one  who  was  destined  to  fill  some  of  the  most  respectable 
stations  in  the  Connexion,  to  exercise  the  office  of  Chairman 
for  several  years,  and,  what  is  even  better,  to  be  the  instru- 
ment of  bringing  hundreds  of  souls  to  God,  went  unnoticed, 
The  reader  must  recall  what  we  said  of  the  younger  brother 
in  the  place  referred  to,  and  to  remember  that  the  senior 
brother  had  always  somewhat  the  advantage  in  other  respects 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  93 

as  well  as  years.     They  were  both  a.great  acquisition  to  the 
ministry. 

194.  While  so  veiy  many  were  coming  forward  to  recruit 
the  ministerial  hosts,  some  had  "put  off  their  harness"  for- 
ever. Three  were  reported  dead.  One  was  a  very  aged  man 
for  years,  another  was  old,  but  still  older  in  complicated  in- 
firmities, induced  by  exhausting  toils  and  exposures  in  the 
vast  circuits  of  the  early  days — but  one  was  but  a  boy  for 
vears,  although  like  a  middle-aged  minister  for  the  maturity 
of  his  mind  and  talents  :  we  are  referring  to  the  venerable 
James  Wilson,  the  laborious  George  Ferguson,  and  the  gifted 
and  saintly  Alexander  Sturgeon  Byrne.  Canada  had  owed 
them  all  to  Ireland.  But  we  need  not  recapitulate  their 
history. 

195.  Of  Mr.  Wilson  his  obituary  notice  says  :  "  The  period 
of  his  superannuation  was  unusually  protracted ;  but  what- 
ever strength  remained  was  cheerfully  devoted  to  the  Re- 
deemer and  for  the  advantage  of  his  beloved  Church,  to  sus- 
tain the  interests  of  which  he  made  a  generous  centenary 
gift.  For  some"  (many)  "years  he  professed  to  enjoy  the 
choice  blessing  of  sanctification.  Nearly  "  (quite)  "  all  his 
children  were  members  of  the  Wesleyan  Church — God 
was  his  life,  his  hope,  his  all.  '  In  age  and  feebleness 
extreme '  the  doctrines  he  preached  were  vital  to  his  heart. 
A  few  months  before  his  death,  at  a  quarterly  meeting,  he 
was  assisted  in  ascending  the  pulpit,  when  he  preached  with 
apparent  youthful  liveliness ;  but  it  was  his  last  effort.  The 
final  hour  came,  and  when  heaven  opened,  his  words  were, 
'  Jesus  is  precious ;  I  want  to  go  ! ' " 

196.  Of  George  Ferguson,  his  brethren's  recorded  testi- 
mony was  as  follows  :  "  His  career  from  the  beginning  was 
marked  by  singularly  zealous  efforts  to  promote  the 
Redeemer's  kingdom.  Thus  it  was  during  the  six  trying 
years  of  his  life   that   were  spent  in  the  army,  and  subse- 


94  CASE,    AND 

quently  through,  the  entire  twenty-seven  years  of  his  effective 
ministry.  He  travelled  many  circuits  from  the  Far  "West 
to  the  eastern  boundary  of  Canada  West,  and  his  labors  were 
signally  crowned  with  the  Divine  blessing  in  the  conversion 
of  hundreds  of  sinners  and  the  edification  of  believers.  To 
our  Church  he  firmly  adhered  through  all  her  trials. 
He  was  a  burning  and  a  shining  light,  and  will  long  live  in 
the  affectionate  remembrance  of  thousands  throughout  the 
Province.  After  a  long  and  painful  illness,  throughout  which 
his  piety  shone  with  great  lustre,  he  departed  this  life,  in 
great  peace,  on  the  1st  of  January,  1851,  in  the  Township  of 
Trafalgar,  C.W.,  in  the  65th  year  of  his  age." 

197.  As  young  Mr.  Byrne  was  simply  a  prodigy  of  pre- 
cociously matured  talents  in  very  boyhood,  though  repro- 
ducing some  statements  made  before,  I  will  give  his  Confer- 
ence obituary  entire,  that  all  may  have  a  complete,  although 
transient  view  of  his  meteor-like  appearance  across  our  Cana- 
dian ecclesiastical  horizon : — 

"Alexander  Sturgeon  Byrne  was  a  grandson  of 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Sturgeon,  for  many  years  a  distin- 
guished member  of  the  Irish  Wesleyan  Conference,  after 
whom  he  was  named,  and  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Claudius 
Byrne,  of  this  Conference.  He  was  born  in  Dungannon, 
Ireland,  June  20th,  1832  ;  and  was,  consequently,  at  his 
death,  (which  happened  in  Brantford,  in  February  last,)  only 
aged  eighteen  years  and  scarcely  eight  months.  He  was  a  de- 
lightful and  encouraging  instance  of  the  beneficial  effects  of 
the  early  consecration  of  children  to  God  by  their  parents, 
and  an  early  habituation  of  them  to  attend  those  social 
means  of  grace  for  which  our  Church  is  distinguished — he 
having  been  led  to  the  class-room  from  the  time  he  was  able 
to  walk.  In  advance  of  a  blameless,  amiable  temper,  and 
conduct,  which  he  evinced  from  infancy,  he  was,  after  a  live- 
long night    of  prayerful  agony,  brought  into  the    glorious 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  95 

liberty  of  the  sons  of  God.  This  important  event  took  place 
about  daybreak,  on  a  Monday  morning,  in  the  month  of 
February,  1845,  and,  consequently,  about  six  years  before 
his  lamented  removal.  He  was  led,  by  a  train  of  providen- 
tial openings,  almost  immediately  to  exercise  his  gifts  in 
public,  which  were  of  such  an  extraordinary  character  as  to 
open  his  way,  when  not  more  than  fifteen  years  of  age,  into 
many  of  the  first  pulpits  of  the  Connexion  in  his  native  land, 
from  which  he  had  the  privilege  of  proclaiming  the  unsearch- 
able riches  of  Christ  to  large  congregations,  brought  together 
by  the  fame  of  his  precocious  talents.  In  the  winter  of  1849, 
himself  and  father's  family  having  emigrated  to  this  country 
a  few  weeks  before,  he  was  called  out  by  the  Chairman  of  the 
Toronto  District  to  labor  on  th&Yonge  Street  Circuit,  where  he 
continued  till  the  ensuing  Conference  ;  when,  being  received 
on  trial  in  the  itinerant  ministry,  he  was  appointed  to  the 
Town  of  London  Circuit,  where  he  was  '  received,'  to  use 
the  Apostle's  language,  '  as  an  angel  of  God,'  and  labored 
with  much  fidelity  and  success.  At  the  next  Conference  he 
was  appointed  (then  in  an  infirm  state  of  health)  to  the  East 
Toronto  City  Circuit.  He  labored  with  much  acceptance, 
though  in  great  pain  and  weakness,  till  increased  indisposi- 
tion forced  him  from  his  beloved  employment,  and  obliged 
him  to  return  to  the  parental  home.  Uniform  patience 
characterized  his  lingering  illness,  and  triumph  his  early 
death.  His  last  words  were,  '  I  know  that  my  Redeemer 
liveth.'  His  character  consisted  of  a  rare  and  most  harmon- 
ious combination  of  dignity  and  modesty,  of  fidelity  and  for- 
bearance, of  prudence  and  zeal,  of  gravity  and  cheerfulness. 
His  preaching  was  distinguished  for  the  ability  to  make  the 
most  practical  and  searching  subjects  attracting  to  all  classes 
of  hearers.  Few  have  enjoyed,  for  the  time,  so  much  popu- 
larity ;  and  still  fewer  have  been  so  little  affected  by  it.  He 
ived  and    died  one  of  the  most  faultless  of  religious  charac- 


96  CASE,    AND 

• 

ters.  And  the  recollection  which  is  entertained  of  him,  is  a 
pleasing  illustration  of  that  scripture,  '  The  memory  of  the 
just  is  blessed.' " 

198.  This  Conference  was  noticeable  among  other  things 
for  a  change  of  editor.  Mr.  Sanderson  had,  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  the  majority  of  the  electors  and  of  the  Connexion  a1 
large,  occupied  the  office  for  five  years,  the  longest  term  bj 
two  years  that  any  incumbent  had  filled  the  editorial  chair 
at  any  one  time,  albeit  that  the  Rev.  Egerton  Byerson  hac 
occupied  that  post  seven  years  in  all,  but  at  three  several 
times.  Mr.  Sanderson's  removal  turned  entirely  or 
the  necessity  of  having  variety  and  of  a  rotation  in  office 
The  Rev.  James  Spencer,  who  was  elected  in  his  place,,  hac 
been  brought  forward  by  some  admiring  friends  at  two  oi 
three  intervals  before,  but  there  had  never,  been  strength  enough 
prior  to  this  session  to  elect  him.  These  two  competitors  were 
also  great  friends.  They  were  born  and  had  spent  their  days 
in  Upper  Canada,  and  they  were  fellow-students  in  the 
Upper  Canada  Academy,  which  afterwards  expanded  intc 
Victoria  College,  and  were  among  the  very  first  who  entered 
their  names.  They  had  some  resemblances,  with  some  dis 
similarities.  Spencer  was  the  older,  perhaps,  by  two  yeas 
but  Sanderson  had  entered  the  itinerant  field  one  year  the 
first :  he  travelled  one  year  under  a  chairman  ;  the  othei 
went  into  the  Conference  on  trial  the  next  year  direct ;  that 
is,  Sanderson  in  1837 — -Spencer  in  1838.  Spencer  had  the 
wider  scholarship  ;  the  other  had  the  more  taking  accomplish- 
ments. Sanderson  had  the  advantage  in  voice  and  appear- 
ance ;  Spencer's  voice  was  sing-song,  and  his  appearance 
by  no  means  showy.  Spencer's  sermons  might  be  the 
better  written;  the  other  certainly  the  better  delivered.  The 
retiring  editor  had  excelled  in  selections,  the  new  incumbent 
was  destined  to  thrust  his  pen  deeper  into  the  questions  01 
the  day.      The  first  deprecated  controversy,  and  labored  for 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  97 

the  promotion  of  peace  ;  the  second  was  bound  to  have  peace, 
if  he  fought  for  it.  For  several  years  previously  it  had  beeri 
thought  meritorious,  on  the  part  of  many  persons  and  papers, 
to  keep  up  a  carping  sort  of  criticism  of  Wesleyan  Methodist 
affairs,  but  Mr.  Spencer  soon  conquered  a  peace.  His  ability 
in  the  use  of  the  argumentum  ad  hominem  and  the  argumen- 
lum  ad  absurdum  soon  taught  the  various  comers  to  be  afraid 
of  some  mischance,  if  they  meddled  with  him.  He  took 
a  very  decided  stand  in  favor  of  Temperance,  and  showed 
himself  otherwise  alert  to  the  exigencies  of  the  times  through 
the  whole  of  his  long  nine  years'  incumbency. 

199.  Any  person  who  wishes  to  know  where  the  several 
ministers  were  stationed  during  the  ecclesiastical  year 
1851-52,  and  the  consequent  changes  any  of  them  underwent, 
has  but  to  consult  the  printed  Minutes  for  that  year;  but  there 
are  some  vacancies  in  the  stations  themselves — vacancies  part 
of  which  the  painstaking  Mr.  Cornish  himself  has  not  been  able 
to  supplement  in  his  valuable  Hand-Book.  The  supplies  for 
these  vacancies  I  must  now  inquire  after,  and  that  the  rather 
as  they  involve  the  commencement  of  some  in  the  ministry 
whose  origin  and  course  of  action  I  am  desirous  to  trace  out 
and  record.     The  Toronto  District  has  a  few  of  these. 

200.  The  Rev.  Samuel  Philp,  sen.,  on  the  important 
[lumber  Circuit,  seems  to  have  gone  to  his  field  of  labor  in- 
complete in  the  matter  of  a  colleague.  Such  a  provision  was 
mailo  by  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson,  co-Delegate,  and  Chairman 
of  the  District,  in  the  person  of  a  tall,  strong  young  man, 
some  twenty-five  years  of  age,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, newly  arrived  in  the  country.  He  had  come  from  the 
healthful  labors  of  agriculture,  and  was  said  to  have  been  an 
adept  in  that  department  of  husbandry  celebrated  by 
Thompson  in  his  Seasons,  when  he  declares  of  noble  Romans 
retiring  from  the  defence  of  their  country,  "  They  seized 
the  plough,  and  greatly  independent  lived."    He  had  not  had 

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98  CASE,    AND 

« 

great  advantages  of  education,  but  lie  knew  religion  experi- 
mentally, had  an  aptness  for  making  sermons,  and  was  im- 
pressive in  delivering  them.  He  felt  the  usual  awkwardness  of 
one  newly  arrived  in  a  new  country,  but  ultimately  mastered 
those  difficulties,  and  made  a  preacher  above  mediocrity. 
"We  are  contemplating  our  strapping,  stalwart  friend  William 
Richardson.  The  Nelson  Circuit,  according  to  the  Minutesj 
needed  a  third  man.  But  the  two  that  were  actually  there 
were  more  than  ordinarily  efficient  and  industrious — the  Rev. 
Messrs.  McCallum  and  Fish,  and  the  former  writes  me  that 
they  "got  on  without  any  regular  supply." 

201.  I  am  indebted  to  the  Rev.  Lewis  Warner,  now  an 
invalid,  but  then  an  efficient  chairman,  for  information  rela- 
tive to  the  supplies  for  the  vacancies  on  the  Barrie  District. 
Horace  Dean,  whose  name,  as  well  as  person,  was  this  year 
in  connection  with  the  Beausoliel  and  French  Rivers,  was 
assisted  by  an  Indian  brother,  Solomon  James  by  name  \ 
but  of  his  history  and  attributes  we  know  nothing  further. 
The  indefatigable  George  McDougall,  who  had  been  sent  to 
shepherd  the  Indians  on  the  North  Shore  of  Lake  Huron,  also 
supplied  the  lack  of  preaching  to  the  neglected  congregation 
at  Bruce  Mines.  We  have  one  more  supply  to  introduce, 
who  will  require  a  little  more  particularizing. 

202.  Nottawasaga  was  often  left  "  to  be  supplied."  It  was 
so  the  present  year,  and  the  supply,  who  was  destined  to 
spend  six  years  in  the  regular  work,  must  now  be  intro- 
duced :  James  M.  Clarke  was  of  Irish  parents,  but  born  in 
York  (Toronto)  in  1830.  His  father,  Mr.  William  Clarke, 
was  among  the  early  Methodists  of  the  city,  and  if  his  zeal 
had  been  as  great  as  his  gifts  he  would  have  been  a  preacher 
himself ;  but  he  never  went  beyond  mere  local  efforts.  The 
young  man  now  under  consideration  was  fair  and  florid  in 
face  and  features,  and  stout  and  compact  in  frame  and 
muscle,  almost  inclining  to  corpulency.     He  kept  a  journal 


HiS  COTEMPOEARIES.  99 

and  says  of  himself:  "Convinced  of  sin  A.D.  1846,  when 
nearly  seventeen  years  of  age ;  not  satisfied  as  to  justification 
hy  faith  until  eighteen  months  after.  Believed  for  the 
blessing  of  '  perfect  love  '  a  few  months  subsequent  to  justi- 
fication. Lost  it  in  a  few  weeks  ;  regained  it  at  a  camp 
meeting  in  1851.  Have  retained  it,  though  with  a  wavering 
faith,  till  the  present  time.     Glory  be  to  God  ! 

203.  "  Deeply  impressed,  soon  after  conversion,  with  a 
call  to  preach  the  gospel.  Received  a  call  from  the  Church 
in  1851.  Opened  up  my  commission  for  the  first  time  in 
October  of  the  said  year,  on  the  Nottawasaga  Mission, 
Barrie  District,  under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  L.  Warner, 
Chairman."  Here  we  leave  the  brother  for  the  present, 
reserving  the  right  of  drawing  on  his  journal  to  show  how 
the  work  was  done  in  those  days. 

201.  The  Rev.  John  Carroll  left  the  London  District  at 
the  Conference  of  1851,  and  was  succeeded  in  the  chair  of 
the  district  \>y  the  Rev.  Samuel  Rose,  who  was,  as  we  have 
seen,  in  charge  of  the  Mount  Elgin  Indian  Industrial  School. 
There  were  four  places  not  supplied  by  Conference  men,  but 
two  of  them  I  provided  for  during  the  Conference.  I  aided 
ray  successor  in  getting  a  young  man  for  the  district  during 
the  year,  by  which  a  young  preacher  was  released  to  go  to 
one  of  the  vacancies,  and  a  fourth  was  extemporized  by  the 
chairman.     The  details,  I  believe,  were  as  follows  : — 

2()f>.  The  first  pair  of  supplies  was  from  the  Goderich 
Circuit.  Stmthroy  was  superintended  by  the  Rev.  James 
Armstrong,  who  was  lacking  a  colleague  appointed  by  the 
Conference.  The  young  man  engaged  was  John  Shaw,  the 
son  of  one  of  our  Irish  local  preachers,  born  at  Three  Rivers, 
Lower  Canada.  The  family  removed  to  Goderich,  where 
his  father,  though  a  farmer,  sometimes  taught  a  school,  and 
for  over  thirty-five  years  was  Township  Clerk  and  Treasurer. 
At  a  special  service,  held  by  the  Rev.  John  Williams  and 


100  CASE,  AND- 

» 

the  Rev.  James  Gray,  young  Shaw  was  converted,  not  from 
immorality,  but  Phariseeism,  on  the  12th  of  March,  1849. 
In  three  months  he  had  been  appointed  assistant  class- 
leader  j  and,  three  months  later  than  that,  he  was  sent  to 
meet  a  class  by  himself  where  there  were  a  great  number  of 
old  members,  which  he  found  a  sore  trial.  In  the  spring  of 
1851  after  due  examination  under  the  pastorate  of  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Fear,  he  preached  a  trial  sermon,  and  was  fully 
installed  in  the  office  of  a  local  preacher.  He  was  therefore 
prepared  to  respond  to  my  request  from  the  Conference  of 
1851,  and  enter  the  opening  left  for  him  at  Strathroy.  Mr. 
Shaw,  although  a  massive  specimen  of  physical  manhood, 
was  very  young,  and  diffident  to  a  degree ;  but  a  tolerable 
elementary  education,  some  practice  in  a  mutual  improve- 
ment and  debating  society,  diligent  private  study,  and  one 
year  at  Victoria  College,  placed  him  in  an  advanced  position 
at  the  end  of  his  four  years'  probation,  and  laid  the  founda- 
tion for  the  eminence  he  has  since  attained. 

206.  A  young  man  accompanied  Shaw  from  the  Goderich 
settlement  to  supply  the  vacancy  at  Chatham,  under  the* 
superintendency  of  the  Rev.  William  Price — James  Taylor 
by  name.  Of  him  I  have  very  slender  information ;  but, 
partly  from  his  early  friend  and  partly  from  other  sources, 
I  came  to  the  following  conclusion  about  his  history  and 
character  :  He  was  less  stout,  but  a  little  older  than  Shaw. 
Like  him,  he  was  of  Irish  parentage,  and  converted  in  the 
same  revival.  I  would  say  he  had  less  elementary  training, 
but,  perhaps,  more  reading,  and  certainly  more  cheek,  than 
his  junior  friend.  Shaw  says  he  had  "  a  great  verbal  mem- 
ory." His  first  efforts  attracted  the  most  attention  ;  but,  if 
his  life  had  been  spared,  he  would  scarcely  have  kept  abreast 
with  his  more  enduring  companion.  He  was  allowed  to 
attend  college  during  the  last  year  of  his  probation,  but  he 
did  not  survive  the  year  1854,  to  which,  when  we  come,  we 
will  give  him  a  parting  word. 


HIS    COTEMPORAEIES.  101 

207.  Wallaceburg  was  left  without  any  supply,  and  its 
necessities  were  so  urgent  that  the  chairman  was  fain  to 
take  from  the  Rev.  John  Bredin,  at  St.  Thomas,  his  accom- 
plished young  colleague,  Joseph  Hugill,  whose  acquaintance 
the  reader  has  already  made,  and  send  him  to  take  charge  of 
that  isolated  missionary  circuit,  who  gave  a  good  account  of 
it  for  the  balance  of  the  year.  [Since  the  text  was" written 
I  have  ascertained  that  Wallaceburg  would  have  been  totally 
destitute  till  late  in  the  autumn,  had  it  not  been  that  the 
once  robust  Thomas  Harmon,  now  in  age  and  feebleness 
extreme,  went  there  soon  after  Conference,  and  gave  them 
half  the  amount  of  preaching  which  an  efficient  man  would 
have  given.  The  people  showed  their  appreciation  of  his 
services  by  a  testimonial.]  The  Chairman  of  the  Hamilton 
District  was  applied  to,  if  I  remember  right,  both  by  Mr. 
Rose  and  Mr.  Bredin,  to  learn  if  I  knew  of  a  supply.  I 
had  heard  the  fame  of  a  young  man  whom  I  had  once  known 
somewhat  when  he  was  attending  the  Normal  School  in 
Toronto  during  its  first  session,  who  was,  at  the  time  of  the 
application  for  a  supply,  teaching  an  advanced  school  in 
Dunnville,  and  rendering  great  aid  on  the  circuit  as  a  local 
preacher.  Jonah-like,  he  had  been  fleeing  from  circuit  to 
circuit  to  escape  the  responsibility  of  his  call.  Now,  at 
length,  however,  he  consented  to  go  so  soon  as  he  could  wind 
up  his  school,  the  ample  emoluments  of  which  he  gave  up 
for  the  scanty  pittance,  such  as  it  was  then,  of  a  single 
preacher's  salary.  He  came  out  with  all  possible  despatch, 
spent  a  Sabbath  with  us  at  Hamilton,  and  preached  with 
great  acceptability  in  John  Street  Church,  and  took  his  way 
to  his  circuit  the  following  week,  where  he  succeeded  to 
admiration.  This  was  the  ministerial  beginning  of  Edward 
Hartley  Dewart,  born  in  Ireland  of  godly  Methodist  parents  ; 
converted  in  the  wilds  of  Asphodel,  near  Norwood ; 
encouraged  in  his  first  attempts  to  cultivate  his  mind  by  the 


102  CASE,    AND 

loan  of  books  and  -words  of  cheer  from  the  Rev.  William 
Young,  and,  finally,  trained  at  the  Provincial  Normal 
School,  one  of  its  earliest  and  best  scholars.  His  powers  of 
mind  were  quick  and  capacious,  and  he  had  devoured  with 
voracity  all  the  books  which  promised  any  information  that 
had  come  in  his  way.  His  powers  of  private  conversation 
and  his  gifts  for  public  speaking  were  great,  his  voice  loud 
and  strong,  and  all  other  pre-requisites  for  a  preacher  good. 
By  this  time  he  has  made  himself  so  thoroughly,  as  well  as 
favorably  known — I  might  almost  say  to  the  Methodist 
world — as  to  need  no  further  description. 

208.  The  vacancy  on  the  Amliersiburg  Circuit  is  the  only 
remaining  matter  to  be  accounted  for  in  relation  to  this 
district.  As  the  St.  Thomas  Circuit  furnished  the  supply 
for  Wallaceburg  out  of  its  itinerant  ranks,  so  it  furnished 
the  second  preacher  for  Amherstburg  out  of  its  local  ranks. 
A  small  and  very  young  man,  of  a  non-Methodist  family, , 
in  very  good  circumstances,  became  converted  under  (I  think) 
the  powerful  ministry  of  the  Rev.  William  Pollard ;  and; 
after  encountering  some  prejudice,  if  not  some  persecution, 
finally  had  the  family  look  favorably  on  the  Church  of  his 
choice  and  allow  him  to  prepare  himself  for  its  ministry. 
His  name  was  William  Williams.  He  it  was,  if  I  mistake 
not,  who  went  to  the  assistance  of  the  sprightly  Richard 
Whiting  on  the  Amherstburg  Circuit.  He  died  at  the  early 
age  of  thirty-two,  in  1861,  which  would  make  him  but 
twenty-two  when  he  went  to  the  help  of  his  brethren  in  the 
itinerant  work. 

209.  The  omissions  on  the  Brantford  District  for  this  year 
are  soon  despatched.  The  Ingersoll  and  Norwich  Circuits 
each  lacked  a  second  preacher ;  but  the  Rev.  C.  W.  M. 
Gilbert,  the  Superintendent  of  the  former,  informs  me  that 
neither  he  nor  his  neighbor,  the  Rev.  Francis  Chapman, 
long  since  deceased,  received  an  assistant,  but  had  to  struggle 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  103 

on  alone.  The  Rev.  Matthew  Whiting,  in  charge  of  Wal- 
svngJiMm,  I  am  informed  by  the  venerable  Matthias  Holtby, 
then  and  now  a  supernumerary  on  that  circuit,  had  a  young 
preacher  sent  to  his  assistance  from  Brantford  by  the  name 
of  Kirk;  but,  as  he  soon  went  to  the  United  States,  nothing 
further  is  known  of  him. 

210.  There  were  three  places  to  be  supplied  on  the  Ham- 
ilton District,  all  provided  for  by  the  retiring  chairman,  the 
Rev.  Henry  Wilkinson,  as  I  know  from  my  own  recollec- 
tion, having  succeeded  him  in  the  charge  of  the  district. 
And  there  was  another  case  of  exigency  created  by  the 
failing  health  of  the  Rev.  John  Baxter,  of  the  Nanticoke 
Circuit.  Through  his  indisposition  the  circuit  would  have 
suffered  very  much,  only  that  a  young  local  preacher,  who 
was  teaching  school  in  the  circuit,  went  to  the  aid  of  his 
Superintendent  by  not  only  going  far  and  near  on  Sabbaths, 
but  by  holding  successful  revival  services  on  week  nights 
besides.  This  young  preacher  was  William  Tomlin,  who 
thus  gave  augury  of  the  extreme  diligence  and  success  which 
were  to  characterize  his  after  career  in  the  itinerancy.  More 
of  him  when  fairly  introduced  to  the  work. 

211.  Buunville  was  under  the  superintendency  ofthe  Rev. 
John  Hunt,  whose  field  was  so  extensive  as  to  need  an 
assistant.  That  assistant  was  a  gentleman  of  middle  age, 
who  had  been  a  member  of  the  Irish  "  Primitive  Wesleyan  " 
Conference  for  several  years,  but,  of  course,  not  ordained,  as 
that  section  of  Methodism  declined  the  right  of  dispensing 
the  sacraments  by  its  preachers.  He  was  a  fair  preacher, 
willing  to  labor,  companionable  among  the  people,  and  much 
liked.  We  are  writing  of  George  Washington  1st,  now  a 
supernumerary  minister  of  the  Canada  Methodist  Church, 
residing  at  Oakville. 

-12.  The  Rev.  Solomon  Waldron  was  left  without  an 
assistant  at  Mora.     I  found  and  sent  to  his  aid  a  young 


104  CASE,    AND 

man  who  haft  travelled  a  time  on  the  Walsinghani  Circuit. 
He  had  some  mind  and  many  excellences,  but  such  marked 
idiosyncracies  (which  after  some  years  grew  into  spells  of 
insanity)  as  to  ultimately  disqualify  him  for  the  work. 
Thisa  was  Edward  Cooke,  a  native  of  Cornwall,  England, 
whence  he  had  come  in  the  standing  of  a  local  preacher. 

213.  A  circuit  still  further  north — the  Peel — had  no  Con- 
ference supply  'at  all,  except  that  the  ordinances  were 
dispensed  by  the  good  and  venerable  Ezra  Adams,  who 
resided  there  as  a  superannuate.  The  work  and  manage- 
ment of  the  circuit  were  taken  by  Mr.  Adams'  son-in-law, 
who  had  lived  within  its  bounds  almost  from  the  beginning 
of  the  settlement,  and  whose  acceptability  as  a  local  preacher 
was  so  great  that  his  brethren  and  neighbors  gladly 
received  him  as  their  pastor.  This  was  Matthew  Swarm, 
now  a  district  chairman,  the  son  of  Governor  Maitland's 
steward,  born  himself  in  York  (Toronto)  ;  converted  in  old 
Adelaide  Street  Church  ;  several  years  in  the  employ  of  the 
late  Richard  Woodsworth,  and  commissioned  as  a  local 
preacher  by  the  Rev.  Henry  Wilkinson.  Mr.  Swann, 
though  married,  was  young  and  vigorous,  compact  and  wiry, 
of  average  abilities,  but  uncommon  zeal  and  laborkrasness. 
Perhaps  no  preacher  could  have  been  got  to  do  the  same 
amount  of  service  in  that  new  country  as  himself. 

214.  There  were  three  vacancies  in  the  appointments  of 
the  Cobourg  District  for  the  year  1851-52,  namely  :  Scugog 
Mission,  an  assistant  for  the  Rev.  William  Case  at  Alder- 
ville,  and  the  sole  incumbent  of  the  new  missionary  circuit, 
Metcalf,  which  seems  to  have  been  identical  with  Lindsay 
and  its  vicinity.  Mr.  Cornish's  researches  have  led  him  to  say 
that  Scugog  was"supplied  from  adjacent  circuits.  All  my  in- 
quiries have  failed  to  reveal  Mr.  Case's  assistant  for  the  year.* 
But  we  learn  incidentally,  from  a  communication  in  the 

*Nay,  we  have  just  ascertained  that  the  distinguished  missionary 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  105 

Guardian  for  that  year,  that  the  Rev.  Thos.  McMullen,  who 
had  travelled  twelve  consecutive  years,  and  then  retired  into 
the  local  ranks  from  1845  to  1849,  and  had  supplied  Cart- 
wright  and  Manvers  the  preceding  year,  was  now  perform- 
ing the  same  benefit  to  the  Metcalf  Mission,  and  not  at 
"  Aylmer,  0.  E.,"  as  Mr.  Cornish  erroneously  has  it  in  the 
Hand-Book. 

215.  Under  the  date  of  November  3rd,  1851,  Mr. 
McMullen  writes  as  follows  : — "  We  have  the  droppings  of  a 
shower  falling  on  us  already  ;  a  number  have  been  added  to 
us  since  Conference  ;  we  have  union  and  love  everywhere  on 
the  mission.  The  class  in  the  Village  of  Lindsay  is  very 
much  revived.  Here  our  members  and  friends  are  com- 
mencing a  new  chapel ;  they  have  subscribed  very  liberally, 
and  they  have  got  the  heavy  stuff  on  the  spot,  and  expect  to 
have  it  finished  early  in  the  spring.  The  building  is  forty 
feet  by  thirty  feet.  We  are  looking,  and  not  in  vain,  for  God 
to  bless  us  on  this  mission  this  year. 

"  Thy  mercy  make  known,  and  sprinkle  Thy  blood, 
Display  Thy  salvation,  and  teach  the  new  song 
To  every  kingdom,  and  nation,  and  people,  and  tongue." 

216.  The  Belleville  District  had  two  of  these  vacancies  to 
account  for,  namely  :  the  second  preacher's  place  on  the  old 
and  valuable  Picton  Circuit,  "  who  was  to  reside  at  Uloom- 
tield."  His  then  Superintendent,  the  Rev.  Wm.  McFad- 
den,  informs  me  that  the  brother  of  the  chairman  of  the 
district,  Mr.  Benjamin  Jones,  whom  we  have  seen  enter  the 
work  in  1811  and  retire  into  the  local  ranks  in  1847,  but 
serve  as  a  chairman's  supply  of  Owen   Sound   during  the 


the  Rev.  Thomas  Hurlbert,    who  has  spent  the  preceding  six  years 
assisting  the  Methodist  Church  in  the  United  States,  as  Presiding 
Elder  in  their  Indian  Mission  Conference,  had  returned  to  his  native 
land,  and  was  employed  hy  the  authorities  to  fill  this  vacancy. 
5* 


106  CASE,    AND 

• 

preceding  Conference  year,  is  now  brought  down  to  assist 
Mr.  McFadden  in  the  district  presided  over  by  his  relative, 
the  Rev.  Richard  Jones.  The  second  preacher  for  Sidney 
was  Henry  Jones,  of  whom  more  under  the  next  year. 

217.  Newboro',  in  the  Kingston  District,  in  charge  of 
the  laborious  Michael  Baxter,  required  the  second  preacher 
"  to  be  sent,"  and  was  supplied  by  a  young  Irishman  from 
the  mother  country.  This  was  John  Mills,  a  stout,  com- 
pact person,  with  a  semi-Scottish  accent,  newly  from  the 
North  of  Ireland,  of  good  average  abilities,  fervent  in 
spirit,  and  destined  to  do  a  great  amount  of  work,  and  to 
realize  a  goodly  measure  of  success  on  the  very  best  class 
of  our  rural  circuits. 

218.  Hinckinbrooke  was  to  be  supplied  with  a  preacher,  but 
who  the  supply  was,  we  are  unable  to  say,  after  applying  to 
every  likely  source  of  information.  As  it  was  a  new  crea- 
tion, it  is  barely  possible  that  it  was  still  supplied  in  con- 
nection with  the  circuit  or  circuits  of  which  it  had  previously 
been  a  part. 

219.  The  Brochville  and  By  town  Districts  were  each  com- 
pletely manned,  and,  therefore,  require  no  remarks.  James 
G.  Witted  was  allowed  a  year's  leave  of  absence  to  visit 
England. 

220.  This  Conference  year  was  one  of  unusual  Connexional 
activity  and  labor.  The  ordinary  routine  of  operations  on 
the  several  charges  seem  to  have  been  prosecuted  with  more 
than  usual  painstaking  and  success.  Camp  meetings  and  re- 
vival meetings  were  held  in  all  parts  of  the  Connexion,  and 
attended  with  more  than  usual  power,  and  followed  by  great 
results.  The  year  was  observable  for  the  number  of  new 
churches  erected,  or  completed  and  dedicated,  or  of  old  ones 
re-modelled  and  restored.  Some  newly-planted  missions 
were  so  successful  as  to  inspire  special  encouragement.  The 
Missionary  department  seemed  to  have  a  warm  place  in  the 


HIS   COTEMPOEARIES.  107 

Connexional  heart.  The  anniversaries  and  missionary  meet- 
ings were  enthusiastically  enjoyed  and  reported  from  almost 
every  circuit  in  the  work.  These  reports  are  so  many  and 
so  full  that  even  an  abridged  report  of  them  would  be  im- 
practicable. In  a  word,  vitality  and  hope  seemed  to  pulsate 
the  entire  body. 

221,  Camp-meetings  were  held  in  the  following  places, 
vigorously  conducted,  presently  owned,  and  followed  with 
more  or  less  revival  influence  in  the  after  years,  as  the  glow- 
ing reports  of  them  indicated.  The  places,  and  pretty  much 
the  order  of  them,  were  as  follows — in  the  Townships  of 
Augusta,  West  Gwillimsburg ,  Whitchurch,  Brock,  a  union 
meeting  for  the  Bradford  and  Barrie  Circuits,  Waterloo 
West,  and  two  for  the  special  benefit  of  the  Indians,  namely, 
one  at  Muncey  and  the  other  at  St.  Clair. 

222.  New  churches  came  into  existence  during  the  year  in 
a  goodly  number  of  places,  of  which  we  have  certain  account, 
and  there  may  have  been  others  not  gazetted.  It  may  be 
interesting  to  the  several  localities  to  know  when  their  church 
was  first  erected,  or  specially  enlarged  and  beautified.  The 
localities  were  as  follows,  and  pretty  much  the  order  in  the 
year  when  they  were  completed :  Bra  dford  rej  oiced  in  the  open- 
ing ofachurch  August  3rd,  1851 ;  there  was  one  completed  in 
Learn's  neighborhood,  on  the  Chippewa  Circuit ;  one  in  the 
Sixth  Concession  of  King  ;  one  in  Jamestown,  on  the  George- 
town Circuit ;  Kizer's  chapel,  on  the  Humber  Circuit ;  in 
Bwrford,  on  the  Brantford  Circuit ;  the  Stone  Church,  in 
McNabb  Street,  Hamilton ;  the  Central  Church,  in  Bytown  ; 
the  Vanduseii  chapel,  Smith's  Falls  Circuit ;  Port  Hope,  en 
larged  and  repaired  ;  Strathroy ;  Village  of  North-port,  on 
the  Domorestville  Circuit ;  Water  down;  Prince  Albert ;  Mercer 
Street,  Gosfield  Circuit,  and  a  parsonage  at  Cookstoum,  under 
the  house-building  L.  O.  Rice. 

323.  Good  news  came  from  a  vast  number   of  circuits, 


108  CASE,    AND 

containing  various  encouraging  particulars.  Some  of  these 
circuits  will  now  be  named,  from  many  of  which  cheering 
ntelligence  came  several  times  over. 

224.  George  McDougall  sent  thrilling  intelligence  from 
Bruce  Mines  and  from  Garden  River ;  Wellesley,  Rawdon, 
and  Nelson  sent  good  news ;  Hamilton  city  opened  a  new 
church,  organized  a  second  congregation,  took  on  the  second 
preacher,  and  advanced  in  all  respects,  despite  the  loss  sus- 
tained by  the  removal  through  the  year  of  Professor  Van- 
Norman,  who  never  returned  to  the  country  and  the  Confer- 
ence, and  the  discontinuance  of  the  Burlington  Academy,  the 
presence  of  which  bad  in  various  ways  strengthened  Method- 
ism in  the  city ;  good  news  came  from  Madoc  and  its  new 
preacher,  Rev.  Robert  Robinson,  from  the  pen  of  the  veteran 
Stephen  Miles ;  Proton,  a  new  mission,  in  the  hands  of  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Hill,  was  uncommonly  successful,  numbering 
an  increase  of  about  one  hundred  members ;  the  Rev.  Thos. 
Bevitt,  by  no  means  a  sanguine  man,  found  the  indications 
so  good  in  the  Brockville  District  that  he  predicted  an  in- 
crease of  one-third  in  the  total  membership  of  the  district  j 
0.  Byrne  reported  well  of  St.  Catharines  and  neighboring 
circuits ;  twenty-five  were  added  as  the  fruits  of  one  revival 
service  on  the  Glanford  Circuit ;  there  was  a  general  revival 
on  the  Markkam  Circuit ;  cheery  John  Black  sent  good  news 
from  Brighton  ;  Owen  Sound  and  Kincardine  both  reported 
progress  ;  Chatham,  netted  a  gain  of  one  hundred  members ; 
Waterloo  and  Kingston  sent  good  news  by  the  Rev.  C.  Taggart; 
among  the  rest  some  pleasant  news  was  sent  from  the  St. 
Thomas  circuit,  with  excuses  for  his  temerity  in  writing  at  all, 
in  a  maiden  communication  from  a  chairman's  supply,  who  is 
now,  and  has  been  for  years,  the  editor  of  our  Connexional 
organ,  we  need  not  name  Edward  Hartley  Dewart ;  the 
AlderviUe,  Rice  Lake,  and  St.  Clair  Missions  sent  very  cheer- 
ing intelligence.     The   newly  returned,  Thomas   Hurlbert, 


HIS    C0TEMP0RARI1S.  109 

was  particularly  happy  and  successful  in  his  -work  at  Aln- 
wick ;  the  vivacious  Dignam  enjoyed  a  general  revival  on  the 
Mono  Mission, — ninety-eight  were  converted  in  a  month  • 
Port  Hope  added  thirty-five  ;  Greenbush  and  Wardsville  had 
prosperity. 

225.  But  the  greatest  amount  of  success  in  any  one  place 
was  realized  in  the  City  of  Toronto,  which  was  the  result  of 
the  presence  and  labors  of  that  pre-eminently  successful  re 

.  vivalist,  the  Rev.  James  Caughey,  seconded  and  followed  up 
by  the  devoted  stationed  ministers  in  the  two  city  circuits, 
the  Revs.  John  Ryerson,  E.  B.  Harper,  H.  "Wilkinson,  and 
John  Douse.  This  was  a  revival  of  earnest  religion  in  all  its 
aspects,  and  resulted  in  a  net  gain  in  the  two  circuits  of  no 
less  than  seven  hundred  and  thirty-one  (731)  in  the  year. 

226.  Miscellaneous  matters  were  of  a  checkered  character 
through  the  year.  The  Financial  District  Meeting,  which 
the  Conference  had  instituted  at  the  Conference  of  1851,  was 
held  in  each  district,  consisting  of  a  strict  party  of  laymen 
and  ministers,  was  found  very  satisfactory  in  regulating  the 
matters  relegated  to  it. 

227.  And  had  there  been  the  same  parity  in  the  Legisla- 
tive Conference  then  as  now,  there  would  not  have  been  the 
Connexional  disturbance  there  was  attending  an  attempt  on 
the  part  of  the  Conference  to  have  the  Connexional  societies 
and  institutions  incorporated,  such  as  the  Missionary  Con- 
tingent, Church  Relief,  and  Annuitant  Funds,  including  the 
Book-room  and  printing  establishment.  Some  public  jour- 
nals, always  showing  more  hostility  than  friendship  to  the 
body,  at  least  its  governing  authorities,  commenced  an  attack 
on  the  Bill  when  introduced  to  the  Legislature.  This 
awakened  the  fears  of  the  members  of  the  Church  in  some 
parts  of  the  Connexion,  who  petitioned  against  the  measure 
to  the  number  of  300  signatures.  But  while  Hamilton,  and, 
perhaps,  some  other  places,  petitioned  against  it,  the  Toronto 


110  '  CASE,    AND 

Methodists  petitioned  in  its  favor.  The  Hon.  Billa  Flint 
introduced  the  measure  and  defended  it  by  his  pen  as  well. 
Although  the  objections  to  the  Bill  were  founded  on  misap- 
prehension and  groundless  suspicion,  those  who  conducted  it 
through  the  Legislature  agreed  to  a  compromise,  and  con- 
sented that  the  funds  created  by  the  ministers,  and  which  they 
alone  had  a  pecuniary  interest,  should  be  named  in  the 
Act  and  no  others,  and  the  others  should  be  allowed  to  drop.  It 
was  a  great  loss  and  inconvenience  to  the  interests  of  the 
Church  for  many  years  to  lose  those  provisions.  But  with  the 
introduction  of  laymen  into  the  Legislature  of  the  Church, 
a  measure,  all  that  could  be  desired,  was  secured.  The  his- 
tory of  this  matter  proves  that  ministers  may  be  stupidl}' 
opposed  to  reasonable  lay  co-operation,  and  laymen  may  be 
unreasonably  suspicious  of  their  ministers.  But  the  true 
way  to  disarm  that  suspicion  is  to  give  the  laymen  informa- 
tion of,  and  a  voice  in,  all  general  interests  of  the  Church. 

228.  A  change  of  ministry  from  Conservatism  to  Liberal- 
ism took  place  during  the  lapse  of  this  ecclesiastical  year, 
which  gave  rise  to  some  questions,  such  as  the  re-opening  of 
the  Clergy  Reserve  question  and  other  matters,  produced 
some  under-currents  which  had  a  disturbing  influence  to  a 
limited  extent. 

229.  Some  attempts  were  made  to  restore  the  machinery 
of  the  Sunday-school  society  in  some  quarters,  and  to  form 
auxiliary  Tract  Societies  in  some  others,  but,  upon  the  whole, 
such  doings  did  not  amount  to  much.  A  paper  for  the  bene- 
fit of  children,  called  the  Sunday  School  Guardian,  was 
started  this  year  by  the  direction  of  the  Conference. 

230.  Among  the  scores  of  excellent  members  of  the 
Church  who  passed  away  to  their  rest  and  reward,  we  have 
specially  noticed  two,  Charles  Biggar,  Esq.,  of  Carrying 
Place,  and  Mr.  John  VanCamp,  senior,  long  of  Matilda  ;  the 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  Ill 

first  was  distinguished  for  his  connection  with  the  educa- 
tional and  other  enterprises  of  the  Church,  and  the  other  for 
his  sanctity  and  long  connection  with  the  body. 

231.  Towards  the  close  of  this  year  the  Rev.  John  Ryer- 
son,  co-Delegate,  left  the  Province,  via  England,  to  visit  St. 
Rupert's  Land,  preparatory  to  the  measure  which  went  into 
effect  soon  after,  of  supplying  the  Hudson's  Bay  and  the 
Rocky  Mountains  with  missionaries  direct  from  the  Canada 
Conference. 

232.  The  total  gain,  in  point  of  numbers  in  the  member- 
ship, was  not  so  great  as  might  have  been  expected  from  the 
activity  and  revival  character  of  the  year.  Still,  it  was  the 
goodly  number  of  one  thousand  three  hundred  and  seventy- 
two. 

233.  The  prospect  is  that  we  have  a  little  more  than  the 
usually  scarcity  of  materials  for  illustrating  the  labors  of  our 
brethren  in  Canada  East,  with  the  result  of  their  labors. 

234.  The  Rev.  John  Borland  communicated  the  following 
relative  to  the  Canada  District  Meeting  and  District  at 
large : — "  Our  District  commenced  its  sittings  on  Wednes- 
day, 21st  of  May  (1851),  nearly  a  week  later  than  origin- 
ally intended,  to  meet  the  convenience  of  the  respected  chair- 
man, whom  we  are  happy  to  receive  once  more,  and  especi- 
ally in  the  honorable  and  responsible  position  of  chairman 
of  the  district.  After  singing  and  reading  of  the  Scriptures, 
prayer  was  offered  by  several  of  the  bi'etliren,  and  a  gracious 
softening  was  devoutly  realized  by  each  person  present.  All 
felt  it  was  good  to  be  there. 

235.  "  This  season  was  followed  by  the  usual  business  of 
the  meeting ;  all  of  which  was  quickly  and  agreeably  dis- 
posed of,  save  that  of  stationing  the  brethren  for  the  ensu- 
ing year.  This  was  found  a  more  than  ordinarily  trying 
duty,  owing  to  the  peculiar  circumstances  of  Montreal  and 


112  CASE,    AND 

Quebec,  and 'the  openings  in,  and  impressive  appeals  from 
many  places  in  the  townships.  "We  earnestly  and  hopefully 
looked  to  your  Conference  for  a  continuation  [of  that  assist- 
ance so  kindly  and  efficiently  rendered  us  the  last  few  years, 
and  I  very  much  regret  to  learn  that  you  have  been"  unable 
to  accede  to  our  wishes. 

236.  "  The  spiritual  and  financial  condition  of  our  work 
is  generally  encouraging ;  and  when  the  very  great  number 
of  removals,  especially  from  our  cities,  is  taken  into  consid- 
eration, it  will  be  acknowledged  that  to  be  able  to  point  to 
any  ground  of  encouragement  is  to  do  much.  We  evidently 
want  a  French  work  in  this  district.  The  French  popula- 
tion are  swarming  into  our  midst,  while  many  of  those 
speaking  the  English  language  are  '  going  westward.'  It  is, 
indeed,  a  serious  question  for  our  committee  to  consider,"and 
not  less,  perhaps,  for  several  members  of  the  district,  whether 
or  not  the  Lord  can  view  our  proceedings  favorably,  and, 
therefore,  bless  us  according  to  our  wants  and  desires,  while 
practically  neglecting  so  large  a  portion  of  those  among 
whom  we  sojourn.  A  prayerful  attention  to  this  subject  is, 
I  believe,  becoming  imperative. 

237.  "The  spirit  prevalent  in  the  meeting  was  good  and 
gracious.  We  had  a  blessed  time  reading  the  Liverpool 
Minutes  and  conversing  together  upon  the  best  method  of 
promoting  the  work  of  God  amongst  us.  I  feel  persuaded 
that  the  brethren  have  but  to  follow  the  leadings  of  that 
Spirit,  then  richly  enjoyed,  in  order  to  realize  a  large  mea- 
sure of  prosperity  in  the  year  upon  which  we  have  entered. 
Oh  !  it '  is,  as  the  sainted  Fletcher  has  said,  the  unction 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  makes  the  preacher.  A  living,  labor- 
ing, self-denying,  believing  ministry  must  be  a  successful 
one. 

238.  "The  appointments  for  the  year  are  as  follows  : — 


his  cotemporaeies.  113 

Montreal  : — 
St.  James  Street — John  Jenkins. 
St.  Gabriel  Street — William  Squire. 
Quebec  Suburbs —  .* 

Quebec— Charles  De  Wolfe,  A.M. 

Three  Rivers — Thomas  Campbell. 

Rawdon — Henry  Cox. 

St.  Johns — G.  H.  Davis. 

Chambly — John  Douglas. 

Odelltown — John  C.  Davidson  (one  wanted). 

Huntingdon — James  Brock. 

Eusseltown — H.  Montgomery. 

Clarenceville — Henry  Lanton. 

St.  Armands — Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 

Dunham — John  Borland  (one  wanted). 

Shefford — Rufus  A.  Flanders  (one  wanted). 

Stanstead — John  Tomkins. 

Hatley  and  Compton — -Malcolm  McDonald. 

Sherbrooke — Benjamin  Slight,  A.M. 

Eaton — John  Armstrong. 

Melbourne — Wm.  Scott  (one  wanted). 

Leeds — Gifford  Dorey." 

239.  Over  the  date  of  November  6th,  1851,  the  Rev. 
James  Brock  wrote  from  Huntingdon,  Canada  East,  "  Our 
beloved  Zion  is  in  a  prosperous  and  healthy  condition,  and 
we  are  looking  for  a  season  of  general  revival."  We  have 
reason  to  believe  that  Mr.  Brock's  own  labors  while  on  that 

*  Only  since  the  text  was  about  to  go  to  press  have  we  learned  that 
ttis  vacancy  was  filled  by  a  young  preacher  transferred  from  New 
Brunswick,  who  wa»  received  on  trial  that  year,  and  who  should  re- 
ceive some  introduction  to  the  reader.  But  it  is  now  too  late  to  get 
thoroughly  authentic  data.  We  are  safe,  however,  in  saying  that 
Brother  0.  N.  F.  T.  Dickson  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  well-bred,  well- 
educated — report  said  educated  for  the  ministry  of  another  Church — 
thoroughly  converted  to  God  and  Methodism,  devout,  circumspect, 


114  CASE,    AND 

circuit  were«remarkably  owned  in  promoting  a  revival  of  un- 
usual depth  and  extent, 

240.  The  Rev.  R.  A.  Flanders,  over  the  date  of  December 
5th,  1851,  wrote  a  cheering  account  of  a  church-opening  in  the 
thriving  and  important  Village  of  Granby,  in  connection  with 
which  he  remarked  as  follows  : — "  The  dedication  of  this  new 
church  was  welcomed  by  our  people  as  an  important  event  in 
the  history  of  our  cause  in  the  township.  We  were  favored 
with  the  clear,  powerful,  and  eminently  practical  ministry 
of  our  esteemed  chairman,  the  Rev.  Wm.  Squire,  who  in 
the  morning  and  evening  preached  to  congregations  which 
filled  the  house  to  its  utmost  capacity.  During  the  fall  the 
Holy  Spirit  has  accompanied  the  ministry  of  the  Word  of 
life  in  His  awakening  power,  and  a  few  of  the  congregation 
has  been  led  anxiously  to  inquire,  '  Men  and  brethren,  what 
must  we  do  % '  These  pleasing  evidences  of  the  Spirit's  co- 
operation in  the  midst  of  our  humiliatingly  fruitless  labors 
serve  to  inspire  new  zeal,  and  are  hailed  as  pledges  of  in- 
creased spiritual  prosperity." 

241.  Over  the  date  of  January  5th,  1852,  the  Rev.  John 
Borland  wrote  from  Dunham,  Canada  East,  "  We  have  no 
remarkable  incidents  to  supply  that  would  be  either  inter- 
esting or  profitable  to  your  readers.  We  have  signs  of  pros- 
perity of  an  encouraging  character,  and  hope,  ere  long,  to  test 
their  practical  importance  by  a  protracted  meeting  at  one 
or  two  of  the  more  central  points  of  this  extended  circuit." 

242.  From  the  communication  of  a  friendly  Presbyterian, 
over  the  date  of  February  4th,  1852,  it  appears  that  a  most 
enthusiastic  "  Wesleyan  soiree  "  in  behalf  of  missions  was 
held  on  the  29th  of  January,  at  Leeds,  Megantic,  which  en- 
listed the  sympathy  and  co-operation  of  their  fellow  Protes- 
tants of  the  different  denominations  in  a  way  to  show  how 

possessed  of  the  talents  most  available  in  the  conversion  of  souls. 
His  subsequent  history  has  confirmed  the  above  estimate, 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  115 

high  the.  Methodist  cause  stood  in  the  public  estimation  in 
that  region.  And  though,  they  were  disappointed  of  the 
presence  of  some  celebrities  from  Quebec,  the  pastor,  Rev. 
Mr.  Dorey,  a  Rev.  Mr.  "Wallace,  several  very  clever  laymen, 
and  the  returned  missionary  Hurlbert,  so  far  succeeded  in 
interesting  the  meeting  as  caused  it  to  pass  off  with  great 
animation  and  unusually  good  effect. 

243.  Having  no  other  means  of  illustrating  the  progress 
of  Wesleyan  matters  in  the  Canada  Eastern  District  for 
1851-52,  we  have  nothing  left  to  us  but  to  inquire  after  the 
issue  as  it  respected  loss  or  gain  in  membership  in  the  year ; 
and  find  that,  after  all  their  assiduity  and  toil,  they  were 
fated  to  return  a  decrease  of  thirty.  Their  total  member- 
ship stood  at  3,739.  This,  added  to  the  27,585  members  in 
the  Canada  West  Connexion,  made  the  total  strength  of 
Wesleyan  Methodism  in  the  two  Provinces  31,324. 

1852-53. 

244.  The  ecclesiastical  year  1852-53  began  with  the  usual 
session  of  the  Canada  Conference,  which  sat  this  year  in 
Kingston,  and  commenced  its  sittings  on  June  2nd,  1852,  and 
continued  them  until  the  10th  of  the  same  month.  At  the 
request  of  the  Canada  Conference,  and  with  the  compliance 
of  the  British  Conference,  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood  again  took 
the  chair.  The  Rev.  John  Ryerson  had  been,  by  the  same 
means  and  authority,  re-appointed  co-Delegate ;  and  the 
Rev.  George  Rivers  Sanderson  was,  after  fourteen  years' 
itinerancy,  appointed  Secretary,  a  work  which  his  ready 
penmanship  and  dignified  manners  well  prepared  him  to 
perform.  This  was  one  of  the  most  harmonious  and  truly 
religious  Conferences  known  to  Canada.  There  had  been  a 
great  revival  of  inward  holiness  and  earnest  devotion,  both 
among  ministers  and  members  throughout  the  Connexion 
the  previous  year,  and  the  influence  of  it  was  felt,  not  only 
in  the  number,  earnestness,  and  unctious  character  of  the 


116  CASE,    AND 

* 

religious  services  attending  the  Conference,  including  ser- 
sermons,  prayer  meetings,  and  Conference  love-feast,  which 
was  pronounced  the  best  ever  remembered ;  but  the  result 
was  seen  in  the  increased  kindliness  and  brotherliness  of  the 
discussions,  and  manifest  religiousness  of  all  the  business 
transacted. 

245.  In  following  the  order  of  routine  proceedings,  we 
have  first  to  record  the  admission  of  no  less  than  ten  pro- 
bationers into  full  connexion  with  the  Conference.  These 
were  :  Charles  Fish,  Alexander  Campbell,  John  G.  Laird, 
John  English,  Thomas  Peacock,  John  S.  Evans,  John  B, 
Armstrong,  Benjamin  Jones,  Edward  White,  and  Francis 
Berry.  All  but  the  last  have  been  frequently  before  the 
reader,  and  their  antecedents  need  not  be  recalled.  There 
had  been  some  interruptions  in  the  continuity  of  the 
probationary  relations  to  the  Conference  of  three  of 
them,  namely  :  Messrs.  Campbell,  Evans,  and  Jones ;  but 
each  had  performed  at  least  five  years'  labor,  instead  of  four, 
which  the  rules  only  required. 

246.  But  Francis  Berry's  case  requires  a  more  extended 
presentation.  He  was  an  Irish  Canadian  of  Wesleyan 
parents,  born  in  the  vicinity  of  Toronto  ;  trained  religiously 
in  the  Adelaide  Street  Sunday-school,  and  educated  in  one 
of  the  best  select  schools  in  the  city.  His  education  and 
business  learned  had  been  commercial.  His  way  into  the 
ministry  did  not  seem  to  open  before  marriage,  and  his  union 
with  the  daughter  of  a  highly-respectable  and  influential 
member  of  the  Primitive  Methodist  body.  At  their  solici- 
tation Mr.  Berry  entered  their  ministry,  in  which  he  showed 
more  than  usual  energy,  and  met  with  more  than  usual  suc- 
cess. After  several  years'  employment  in  that  way,  he 
thought  well  of  retiring  for  a  time  into  secular  life,  and 
entered  on  a  commercial  career  in  the  Town  of  Brantford,  in 
which,  for  the  short  time  he  was  in  it,  he  was  very  successful, 


HIS  cotempokAries.  117 

In  that  town  lie  resumed  his  connection  with  Ms  original 
friends,  the  Wesleyan  Methodists;  went  upon  their  plan  as 
a  local  preacher;  was  exceedingly  acceptable  and  useful;  was 
invited  far  into  the  neighborhood  around  on  various  occa- 
sions, and,  finally,  was  pressed  to  close  his  secular  business 
and  to  re-enter  the  ministry,  and  in  the  Church  of  his  fathers. 
He  was  still  young,  was  zealous,  had  lively  preaching  tal- 
ents, and  more  than  usual  capacity  for  the  business  part  of 
an  itinerant's  work.  We  need  only  add,  in  the  words  of  the 
Editor  for  that  year,  the  Rev.  James  Spencer,  "  Bro.  Berry 
was  furnished  with  satisfactory  testimonials  of  his  character 
and  standing  in  the  body  with  which  he  was  formerly  con- 
nected, and  was  received  into  the  Wesleyan  ministry  in 
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  regulations  adopted  by  the 
Conference  several  years  since"  (in  1840),  "for  the  admis- 
sion of  preachers  from  other  bodies  of  Methodists." 

247.  The  service  for  the  reception  of  these  brethren  was 
conducted  by  the  President  of  the  Conference,  the  Bev.  Mr. 
Green  opening  with  prayer.  The  motion  for  their  reception 
was  moved  by  the  venerable  Mr.  Case,  seconded  by  the  Bev. 
John  Carroll,  and  supported  by  the  Bev.  Dr.  Byerson. 
The  experiences  of  the  young  men,  and  every  other  part  of 
the  exercises,  were  very  appropriate  and  impressive. 

248.  Among  the  nine  names  presented  and  accepted  on 
trial  for  the  ministry,  there  was  only  one  with  whom  the 
reader  has  not  been  made  acquainted  already,  not  less  than 
eight  of  them — namely,  William  Richardson,  James  Clarke, 
John  Sliaw,  James  Taylor,  Edward  H.  Dewart,  James 
Harris,  Mattliew  Swann,  and  John  Mills — having  performed 
at  least  one  years'  circuit  work  already,  and  one  of  them 
indeed  more  than  that. 

249.  Henry  Jones  is  the  only  one  who  remains  to  be 
introduced  ;  and  we  are  sorry  that  we  are  so  lacking  in 
information   of   so  worthy  a  man.      He    was    a  native  of 


118  CASE,   AND 

• 

England,  but  had  been  brought  up  in  Canada,  -within  the 
Shannonville  Circuit,  where  he  was  converted  and  grew  up 
into  usefulness.  He  was  very  pious  and  blameless,  and  of 
bland  and  engaging  manners.  His  abilities  were  medium 
and  improveable.  He  was  tall  and  commanding  in  person, 
but  the  strain  of  itinerant  work  demonstrated  that  his 
constitution  was  not  very  strong,  which  resulted  in  early 
retirement  from  labor,  and  death  before  middle  life.  He 
was  re-appointed  to  Sidney,  in  which  he  had  assisted  the 
Rev.  Michael  Eawcett,  then  the  chairman,  the  preceding 
year. 

250.  Two  probationers  retired  for  want  of  health,  namely, 
Alexander  McAllister  and  James  Preston.  The  former  died 
in  the  next  year ;  the  latter  retired  to  the  States  and  joined 
the  Indiana  Conference,  where  he  graduated  to  elder's 
orders,  and  then  returned,  as  we  shall  see.  We  might  have 
said  that  Mr.  Preston  performed  the  pastoral  work  a  good 
part  of  the  ensuing  year  in  Belleville,  in  place  of  the  Eev. 
John  Eyerson,  who  was  absent  in  England. 

251.  On  account  of  enfeebled  health  and  other  reasons, 
the  Rev.  Charles  Turver  took  a  supernumerary  relation  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  visited  England,  I  believe. 

252.  Jonathan  Loverin,  who  once  promised  considerable, 
and  enjoyed  a  large  share  of  the  affections  of  his  brethren, 
was  at  this  Conference  "  deposed  from  the  ministry  and 
expelled  from  the  Church."  He  was  not  without  sympa- 
thizing friends  who  thought  him ""  sinned  against,  as  well  as 
sinning."  But  the  lower  depths  into  which  he  afterwards 
fell  indicated  that  he  was  not  possessed  of  the  moral  stamina 
necessary  to  a  minister.  His  history  should  prove  admoni- 
tory to  preachers  and  people.  Alas  !  poor  Jonathan,  that 
thou  shouldst  have  so  disappointed  our  hopes  ! 

253.  This  Conference  was  visited  by  the  Rev.  Jas.  Brock, 
as  the  representative  of  the  Canada  Eastern  District,  who 


HIS   COTEMPOEARIES.  119 

expressed  the  kindly  salutations  of  his  constituents,  and 
bore  back  those  of  the  Canada  Conference  to  them.  This 
was  the  beginning  of  courtesies  henceforth  recurring 
annually,  and  increasing  in  the  number  of  visitors,  until  it 
ended  (in  1854)  in  the  incorporation  of  that  district  into 
the  Canada  Conference. 

254  The  Rev.  John  Ryerson  being  already  in  England, 
on  his  way  to  the  Hudson  Bay  Territory,  on  a  tour  of 
inspection  of  the  Wesleyan  Missions  in  that  region,  was 
appointed  representative  to  the  then  approaching  British 
Conference.  [It  afterwards  occurred  that  Mr.  Ryerson 
returned  to  Canada  direct,  and  went  out  the  next  season  by 
way  of  the  Red  River.] 

255.  The  usual  Conference  Missionary  Meeting  was  of 
great  interest.  The  addresses  were  of  a  superior  kind.  The 
speakers  were  the  venerable  William  Case,  the  Revs.  Jona- 
than Scott  and  Thomas  Hurlbert,  and  Dr.  J.  W.  Corson,  of 
New- York.  Two  other  speakers,  who  would  have  greatly 
interested  the  meeting,  namely,  Peter  Jones  and  Lachlin 
Taylor,  were  excluded  by  the  lateness  of  the  hour. 

256.  At  one  stage  of  its  proceedings  there  was  a  touching 
scene  in  the  Conference,  consequent  upon  its  being  addressed 
by  the  venerable  Mr.  Case,  who  wished  to  define  his  posi- 
tion, and  to  make  a  request  concerning  his  relation  to  the 
work  in  future.  He  reviewed  the  way  in  which  the  Lord 
had  led  him  since  his  first  appointment  to  Canada  in  1805. 
He  had  been  now  in  the  ministry  forty-seven  years,  sixteen 
of  which  he  had  presided  on  districts  ;  then  there  had  been 
the  care  of  all  the  churches  for  five  years  as  President  of 
the  Conference  or  General  Superintendent  of  the  Connex- 
Wnal  work.  Since  then  he  had  experienced  a  great  deal  of 
OBre,  as  in  charge  of  important  missions  and  mission  schools, 
mm  now,  as  he  felt  his  memory  failing,  he  wished  to  be 
relieved  from  further  care,  lest  his  mental  powers,  overbur- 


120  CASE,  AND 

dened,  should  give  way.  He  did  not  wish  to  be  understood 
as  asking  for  a  superannuated  relation.  He  wanted  an 
efficient  relation,  but  a  subordinate  one.  The  Conference 
considered  his  appeal.  The  Rev.  James  Musgrove,  a  success- 
ful man  in  conducting  the  business  matters  pertaining  tJ 
the  itinerancy,  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Alderville  Mis- 
sion and  Industrial  School ;  and  Mr.  Case,  whose  name  still 
stood  in  connection  with  the  mission,  had  "  permission  to 
visit  various  parts  of  the  work,  as  his  health  and  circum- 
stances might  permit." 

257.  Another  change  of  relation  to  the  Conference  de- 
serves to  be  mentioned.  The  Rev.  Lachlin  Taylor,  who  had 
been  the  preceding  year,  as  a  supernumerary,  gathering 
strength  for  the  duties  and  labors  of  a  wider  sphere,  "  by 
permission  of  the  Conference  "  accepted  the  agency  of  the 
Upper  Canada  Bible  Society,  and  fixed  his  residence  at 
Toronto  for  the  present,  and  entered  on  his  twelve  long 
years  of  efficient  service  of  that  noble  institution — serving, 
the  while,  the  interests,  to  a  great  extent,  of  nearly  every 
evangelical  Church  in  Canada. 

258.  Without  republishing  the  stations,  which  are  to  be 
found  in  the  accredited  Minutes,  we  must  see  how  the  work 
was  provided  for  in  the  length  and  breadth  thereof,  premis- 
ing, before  we  proceed,  that  the  staff  at  the  Connexional 
publishing-house  was  the  same,  Mr.  Green  being  continued 
in  the  Book-Stewardship  and  Mr.  Spencer  in  the  Editorial 
chair,  and  Thomas  Demorest  was  Agent  for  Connexional 
funds. 

259.  That  important  rural  circuit  in  the  Toronto  District, 
the  Humber,  the  second  year  in  succession  received  for  its 
junior  preacher  a  chairman's  supply.  That  supply  was  an 
ardent  young  Irishman,  whose  Superintendent  familiarly 
"  Likened  to  the  spirited  colt,  which,  though  requiring 
careful  training  at  the  first,  when  once  accustomed  to  the 


HIS  COTEMPORARIES.  121 

bit,  becomes  the  most  serviceable  and  enduring  horse ;  so, 
when  the  exuberance  of  youth  in  our  friend  had  received 
its  proper  direction,  he  was  sure  to  be  one  of  the  most  ener- 
getic and  efficient  of  men."  Our  subject  was  Irish  by  birth 
and  parentage,  and  peculiarly  so  in  mind  and  voice.  We 
are  writing  of  our  aggressive  and  courageous  friend,  William 
McDonough.  He  was  born  in  1830,  which  made  him 
twenty-two  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  going  into  the 
field.  Though  young,  he  was  not  soft ;  but  as  his  compact 
build,  dark  complexion,  and  black,  curly,  wiry  hair  indi- 
cated, had  a  constitution  strong  and  enduring  to  a  degree. 
The  antecedents  of  this  youthful  laborer  were  as  follows  :— 
His  birthplace  was  pre-eminently  Protestant,  namely,  the 
County  Fermanagh,  near  Enniskillin.  His  parents  were 
Methodists.  In  conformity  to  the  practice  in  that  country, 
he  was  taken  to  all  the  meetings,  class-meetings  included,  by 
them,  and  was  converted  in  boyhood.  He  became  a  class- 
leader  at  the  early  age  of  seventeen.  The  family  emigrated 
to  Canada  in  1847.  About  the  time  referred  to,  they  had 
the  misfortune  to  lose  the  husband  and  father  in  Montreal. 
The  widowed  mother  and  filial  son  came  up  the  country  to 
Brockville,  where  they  resided  for  a  time.  All  this  while 
his  young  heart  was  agitated  with  the  thought  of  public 
usefulness.  A  touching  and  significant  occurrence  happened 
about  this  time.  When  the  people  around  the  country 
turned  out  to  attend  the  funeral  of  the  much-loved  Ezra 
Healey,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Wesley  McCollum,  in  preaching 
the  funeral  sermon,  made  the  following  declaration  and 
appeal  :  "  The  trumpet  has  fallen  from  the  hands  of  one  of 
Zion's  watchmen.  Who  will  take  it  ? — Who  will  take  it  up  1 " 
A  response  broke  involuntarily  from  the  lips  of  a  weeping, 
trembling  stripling,  "  I  will  !  "  and  he  immediately  sank 
down  upon  the  floor  with  extreme  agitation  and  exhaustion. 
That  stripling  was  young  McDonough.  About  two  montha 
6 


122  CASE,   AND 

• 

after  he  was  placed  on  the  local  preachers'  plan  by  the 
Brockville  quarterly  meeting.  From  Brockville  he  came  to 
Toronto,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Richmond  Street  Quar- 
terly Board,  whence  he  went  into  the  work.  We  need  not 
anticipate  his  reception  on  trial,  or  two  years'  training  at 
Victoria  College.     He  will  often  turn  up  in  Methodist  doings. 

260.  The  extensive,  or  "  six  weeks "  Brampton  Circuit, 
required  three  preachers  to  do  justice  to  its  pastoral  work. 
The  Conference  provided  two — the  fatherly  William  Young 
and  the  young  but  intellectual  and  studious  Blachstoch — 
and  the  chairman  found  a  third.  This  was  a  young  man 
whose  good  personal  appearance,  more  than  usual  educa- 
tional advantages,  and  whose  relationship  to  several  good 
men  whose  patronymic  he  bore,  gave  promise  of  more  in  his 
favor  than  was  realized.  There  are  some  preachers — let 
them  go  where  they  may — who  seem  to  have  the  misfortune 
to  make  a  party,  and  that  party  is  usually  directed  against 
their  colleagues.  They  contrive  to  have  some  very  warm 
admirers,  but,  in  the  end,  to  turn  the  reflecting  and  peace- 
able against  them.  This  young  man,  as  some  experience  of 
him  as  a  hired  supply  in  an  after-emergency  convinced  me, 
was  of  this  character.  Such  men  may  mean  well ;  they 
certainly  persuade  themselves  that  they  are  very  ill-ap- 
preciated and  very  unjustly  treated ;  but  those  the  most 
desirous  to  serve  them  find  these  their  protegees  utterly  im- 
practicable. As  this  brother  never  obtained  a  standing 
among  us,  and  ultimately  "  left  his  country  for  his  country's 
good,"  no  one  will  be  any  considerable  loser  by  not  learning 
his  name. 

261.  Georgetown  is  represented  in  the  Minutes  as  entitled 
to  another  preacher,  but  the  laborious  Superintendent,  the 
Rev.  Joseph  JHessmore,  assures  me  he  worked  it  alone  ;  and  I 
know,  from  their  own  "spontaneous  testimony,  that  he  him- 
self won  golden  opinions  among  them. 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  123 

262.  Nelson  was  an  extensive  circuit  in  those  days,  and 
required  a  third  laborer,  but  that  one  was  "  wanting  "  when 
the  stations  were  published.  The  Superintendent,  the  Rev. 
J.  W.  McCollum,  says  they  got  on  with  what  aid  Father 
Prindle  could  render  them  ;  but  Bro.  George  Washington 
(1st)  claims  to  have  been  the  supply.  I  am  inclined  to  con- 
cede the  palm  of  accuracy  to  him,  having  some  recollection 
of  the  matter  myself,  as  his  family  lived  in  Hamilton  City, 
of  which  I  had  the  charge.  Where  there  are  two  such 
laborers  as  McCollum  and  John  Hunt,  no  circuit  will  very 
much  suffer  if  it  have  no  more. 

263.  Stouffville  was  newly  erected  into  a  separate  charge, 
and  was  promised  a  preacher,  but  none  was  found.  The 
Brethren,  Kerr  and  Sanderson,  laboring  on  the  Markham 
Circuit,  supplied  it  trough  this  year.  In  the  same  manner 
Snake  Island,  &c,  was  supplied  by  Brethren  Willoughby 
and  Longhead,  from  Newmarket  Circuit. 

264.  The  Barrie,  as  an  interior  and  largely  a  missionary 
district,  had,  as  usual,  several  vacancies.  Fortunately,  it 
had  a  chairman  who  had  a  facility  in  extemporizing  provision 
in  such  emergencies — the  Rev.  Lewis  Warner.  His  own 
circuit,  the  head  of  the  district,  was  lacking  a  junior 
preacher,  and  he  was  fortunate  in  finding  one  valuable 
then,  but  also  encouragingly  improvable.  About  1850  two 
pious  young  Wesleyans,  who  had  known  each  other  in 
England,  came  together  to  the  United  States.  The  one  was 
James  Harrin,  the  other  was  Andrew  Edwards ;  one  was  the 
Bon  of  a  Wesleyan  minister,  the  other  of  a  peasant  ;  one 
was  classically  educated,  the  other  had  but  a  plain  English 
education,  and,  withal,  an  observable  provincial  patois  ;  one 
was  a  druggist  by  profession,  the  other  a  farm  laborer. 
Both  had  good  minds,  but  Edwards'  was  quicker,  though, 
mayhap,  more  superficial  ;  but  Harris',  though  slower,  was 
stronger  and  perhaps  more  profound.     The  less  educated 


124  CASE,    AND 

was  the  readier  man,  and,  for  the  time  being,  the  more  pass- 
able preacher,  and  perhaps  with  some,  always  the  more 
popular  one  ;  but  the  other  had  a  mind  to  wear  bright,  to 
improve  ever  on,  and  to  satisfy  the  minds  of  the  most 
thoughtful  and  the  pious  affections  of  the  most  devout.  At 
the  first  start  Edwards  had  most,  in  point  of  voice  and  elo- 
cution, in  his  favor  as  a  speaker  ;  in  the  long  run,  the  other, 
in  voice  and  manner  and  everything  else,  became  a  most 
hearable  and  satisfying  speaker.  Edwards  might  be  the 
more  active  in  promoting  revival  meetings,  but  Harris  led 
his  hearers  into  all  the  heights  and  depths  of  holiness. 
Edwards  overcame  wondrously  early  illiteracy ;  but  Harris, 
by  some  of  his  later  writings,  showed  a  capacity  for  some  of 
the  higher  types  of  literature.  Harris,  we  have  seen,  ren- 
dered a  great  deal  of  help  on  the  Dunnville  and  Nanticoke 
Circuits,  without  fee  or  reward,  during  the  year  1850-51. 
During  the  year  1851-52  he  had  been  a  chairman's  supply 
on  the  Elora  Circuit,  and  now,  at  the  Conference  of  1852, 
was  received  on  trial  and  sent  to  the  Peel  Circuit.  His 
friend  was  still  in  the  United  States,  where  his  old  country 
peculiarities  stood  in  the  way  of  his  becoming  more  than  a 
local  preacher.  He  wanted  to  enter  the  Wesleyan  ministry, 
and  we  wanted  him.  Indeed,  through  his  friend  Harris, 
who  informed  me  of  him,  I  invited  him  to  come  to  my 
district  (the  Hamilton),  and  left  the  junior  preacher's  place 
at  Elora  vacant  for  him,  the  vacancy  his  friend  had  filled 
the  year  before ;  but,  fortunately  for  Bro.  "Warner  and  the 
Barrie  Circuit,  when  he  arrived  at  Toronto  he  learned  from 
the  authorities  about  the  destitution  at  the  North,  and,  not 
knowing  the  country  or  the  way  to  us,  he  went  to  them. 
His  career  has  been  good  and  his  circumstances  happy,  and 
I  believe  they  would  have  been  so  if  he  had  gone  into  the 
Hamilton  District ;  but  there  has  been,  no  doubt,  a  different 
tinge  in  the  warp  and  woof  of  his  fate  from  what  they 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  125 

.ifould  have  borne  in  the  other  case.  Doubtless,  Omniscient 
love  directed  it  all  for  the  best.  These  two  good  men  have 
been  enduring  laborers.  Mr.  Edwards  is  not  large,  but 
wiry  ;  Mr.  Harris  is  stout  and  strong,  but  not  unwieldy. 
After  a  quarter  of  a  century,  their  natural  force  is  none 
abated.  Mr.  Edwards'  head  corresponds  with  his  dapper 
person,  but  Mr.  Harris'  cranium  is  disproportionately  mas- 
sive for  even  his  large  frame.  The  one  was  raised  ill 
refinement  and  a  sedentary  calling,  is  rather  coarse  in  perso;i 
than  otherwise  ;  the  one  whose  boyhood  was  burdened  with 
manual  toil  in  the  field,  has  the  more  delicate  frame  and 
features.  Both  have  thoroughly  qualified  themselves  for 
their  work,  and  occupy  about  the  same  class  of  respectable 
circuits.  Mr.  Harris  is  a  little  the  more  prominent  in  Con- 
nexional  matters. 

265.  There  was  "  one  wanted  "  to  assist  Alexander  Camp- 
bell at  St.  Vincent,  but  no  one  obtained,  and  Mr.  C.  had  to 
supply  the  circuit  alone.*  Derby  was  presented  as  a  sepa- 
rate charge  in  the  Minutes,  with  "  one  wanted  "  to  supply, 
but  it  was  supplied  by  the  preacher  on  the  Owen  Sound 
Circuit,  the  late  John  Williams,  very  likely  assisted  by  the 
venerable  John  Neelands,  a  supernumerary  residing  there. 

266.  The  London  District  exhibited  two  such  gaps.  At 
Sandwich  and  Windsor,  the  Rev.  Wm.  Ames  was  in  "want" 
of  one  to  help  him,  but  he  writes  me  :  "  I  had  no  colleague. 
I  preached  at  Sandwich  morning  and  evening  on  Sunday, 
and  in  the  afternon  at  Windsor  ;  besides  which  I  had  four 
or  six  week-day  appointments,  extending  some  twenty-six 
miles  back  from  Sandwich.  Each  of  these  I  took  fortnightly 
in  the  evening."  Some  of  the  places  must  have  been  dreary 
enough,  for  he  speaks  of  holding  a  sacramental  service  at 
one  place  where  the  mice  actually  disputed  the  sacramental 

*  So  aaya  the  Chairman,  but  Mr.  Cornish  makes  S.  E.  Maudsley 
the  supply. 


126  CASE,   AND 

bread  with  him,  and  he  had  to  fight  them  away  while  offer- 
ing the  prayer  of  consecration.  That  same  neighborhood  re- 
paid exertions,  and  has  for  a  long  time  rejoiced  in  a  good 
brick  church.  The  Conference  sent  no  supply  to  Mitchell, 
and  the  then  chairman  has  not  informed  me  whether  he  suc- 
ceeded in  finding  one. 

267.  Hamilton  had  two  vacancies ;  first,  the  second  preach- 
er's place  at  Cayuga  Heights ;  and  I,  as  the  chairman,  can 
remember  soliciting  a  young  local  preacher  in  vain  to  go, 
but  cannot  remember  who  I  found,  if  any,  to  go  there,  and 
alas,  the  Superintendent,  Brother  Thomas  Jeffers,  is  not  alive 
to  refer  to.  Elora  was  in  a  similar  plight,  but  the  Brother 
Edward  Cooke,  mentioned  under  the  preceding  year,  was 
still  there  assisting  the  Bev.  Solomon  Waldron. 

268.  Two  Indian  Missions  in  the  Cobourg  District  were 
to  be  supplied,  these  were  Scugog  and  Mud  Lake.  The 
former  was  probably  supplied  from  some  adjacent  circuit, 
perhaps  Cartwright,  whose  incumbent  was  the  Bev.  John 
Sanderson.  The  Mud  Lake,  with  probably  some  adjacent 
white  settlements  attached,  received  a  chairman's  supply 
from  the  neighboring  Township  of  Otonabee.  He  was  of  re- 
spectable American  parentage,  and  may  have  been  born  in 
the  States,  but  if  so  he  was  certainly  brought  up  from  early 
childhood  in  Canada.  He  was  born  in  1817,  and  born  again 
in  1836,  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  His  conversion  was 
marked  and  decisive,  and  piety,  even  eminent  attainments 
in  piety,  characterized  his  after-course.  He  had  throughout 
a  yearning  compassion  for  perishing  souls.  He  was  only 
twenty-five  years  of  age  when  called  out,  but  had  been  five 
years  laboring  for  the  good  of  others  as  an  exhorter  and  local 
preacher  ;  and  had  he  not  married  young,  would  probably 
have  been  brought  into  the  regular  ministry  some  time  be- 
fore. But  the  fact  that  his  wife  was  the  daughter  of  godly 
parents  and  became  an  eminently  pious,  as  she  was  a  gifted 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  127 

and  accomplished  woman,  overcame  the  objection  to  him  on 
account  of  matrimonial  incumbrances.  He  had  sought  to 
qualify  himself  for  the  ministry  by  a  period  of  study  at 
Victoria  College.  His  personal  appearance  and  manners 
were  very  much  in  his  favor.  It  is  said  of  him  in  his  Con- 
ference obituary  :  "  He  was  a  faithful  minister  of  Jesus 
Christ ;  his  popularity  as  a  preacher  rested  not  so  much  on 
the  brilliancy  of  his  efforts,  as  on  the  plainness  and  unaffected 
simplicity  with  which  he  presented  the  vital  truths  of 
Christianity.  He  was  particularly  felicitous  in  introducing 
into  his  discourses  illustrations  from  Nature's  open  book  ;  ar- 
resting the  attention  of  his  audience,  and  with  the  quick- 
ness of  thought,  sending  the  barbed  arrow  to  the  conscience 
and  the  heart."  Thus  constituted  and  equipped,  the  reader 
will  be  prepared  to  follow  him  with  the  expectation  of  a  har- 
vest of  souls  in  all  the  fields  of  labors  whither  he  went,  an 
expectation  destined  to  be  realized.* 

*  By  some  means  we  have  passed  over  the  vacancies  in  the  Brant- 
ford  District  for  1852-53,  and  in  doing  so,  overlooked  the  provision  for 
an  important  circuit  and  failed  to  introduce  a  valuable  supply,  who 
has  occupied  a  peculiar  place  in  the  work  in  these  Provinces.  The 
second  preacher's  place  in  the  Simcoe  Circuit  was  vacant,  and  a  supply 
was  found  for  it  in  the  person  of  a  newly.arrived  preacher  from  Eng- 
land. This  was  Thomas  Woolsey,  the  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Wm. 
Wooltey,  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  "Legal  Hundred"  in  the 
British  Conference.  T.  W.  was  a  native  of  Gainsborough,  Lincoln- 
shire, but  had  resided  long  in  London,  where  he  was  ten  years  a 
member  in  the  far-famed  City  lload  Circuit.  He  had  exercised  his 
gifts  as  a  local  preacher  no  less  than  fifteen  years  on  his  coming  to 
Canada,  when  he  was  a  matured  and  experienced  man  of  thirty-four 
years,  strong  and  enduring,  but  still  very  active.  The  Simeoe  Cir- 
cuit, as  then  constituted,  furnished  no  ill  preparation  for  roaming  the 
Saskatchewan  for  nearly  a  decade.  Mr.  W.  says,  "It  then  included 
what  are  now  Port  Dover  and  Windham,  and  I  believe  Waterford,  but 
I  am  not  certain."  The  delay  of  Brother  Woolsey's  letter  to  me  has 
crowded  him  into  a  sm»ll  space,  and  from  the  text  into  a  note. 


128  CASE,    AND 

269.  Bellevitle,  although  previously  only  a  station  for  one 
man,  had,  in  connection  with  the  name  of  the  Rev.  John 
Ryerson,  "  one  to  be  sent."  There  were  two  or  three  rea- 
sons for  this  :  this  town  had  a  heavy  membership,  and  a 
great  amount  of  pastoral  work.  So  much  so,  that  if  the 
superintendent  were  always  there,  he  would  be  none  the 
worse  of  a  curate,  but  when  in  Canada,  even,  Mr.  Ryerson,  as 
co-Delegate,  was  often  away  from  his  station  on  official  en- 
gagements, especially  as  the  actual  President,  Mr.  "Wood, 
had  the  superintendency  of  missions  specially  in  charge. 
But  Mr.  Ryerson  had  been  away  the  latter  part  of  the  pre- 
ceding Conference  year,  and  expected  to  be  away  a  large 
portion  of  this  year.  "We  have  seen  that  Mr.  Preston  re- 
mained and  supplied  the  station  for  several  weeks  after  the 
Conference,  but  he  was  anxious  to  be  away  to  the  United 
States,  whither  he  went  on  the  second  of  October,  so  soon 
as  a  supply  could  be  obtained.  Such  a  supply  God  provided 
in  due  time.  Towards  the  latter  part  of  the  summer  a 
young  gentleman  arrived  from  England,  coming,  if  I  remem- 
ber correctly,  upon  the  recommendation  of  Mr.  Ryerson 
himself,  who  was  at  the  British  Conference  for  that  year. 
This  young  preacher  came  possessed  of  no  ordinary  qualifica- 
tions. He  was  the  son  of  an  English  Wesleyan  minister, 
and  classically  educated  at  one  of  the  Connexional  Schools. 
He  was  further  liberalized  by  acquiring  what  might  be  called 
a  learned  profession.  Then,  he  had  unusual  advantages  as 
a  preacher ;  he  excelled  as  a  homilist,  and  in  voice,  volu- 
bility, or  fluency,  and  tenderness  and  impressiveness  in  his 
delivery.  Sach  was  Brother  Thomas  D.  Pearson  when  he 
first  appeared  among  us.  I  have  often  wondered  that,  by 
this  time,  he  had  not  won  a  higher  Connexional  position. 
Perhaps  his  known  meek  and  retiring  disposition  is  the 
cause.     By  the  time  his  name  comes  before  the  Conference 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  129 

as  a  candidate,  I  may  be  better  furnished  with  the  dates  and 
salient  points  connected  with  his  early  history. 

270.  From  the  stations  in  the  Belleville  District  it  ap- 
pears that  Rev.  J.  G.  Witted  had  returned  from  England, 
and  was  appointed  as  second  preacher  on  the  Consecon  Cir- 
cuit. From  the  same  source  we  have  learned,  that  the  Rev. 
Cyrus  R.  Allison,  had  become  superannuated,  and  resided 
in  that  circuit.  He  never  felt  himself  equal  to  a  circuit 
more. 

271.  Hungerford  was  left  to  be  supplied.  Such  a  supply 
was  found  in  the  person  of  a  middle-aged  local  preacher,  from 
either  England  or  Ireland,  who  had  lived  in  Kingston,  and 
who  moreover  was  single,  being  either  a  bachelor  or  a 
widower.  Moreover,  he  was  said  to  possess  a  prepossessing 
address  and  an  impressive  manner,  with  fair  abilities  as  a 
preacher.  He  succeeded  well  on  the  circuit,  reporting  seven 
classes  in  a  compact  circuit,  formed  out  of  part  of  four  ad- 
jacent townships,  and  returned  a  membership  of  156.  He 
never  was  received  into  the  Conference,  but  regularly  sup- 
plied circuits  for  six  successive  years  thereafter,  and  report 
says,  with  great  approval,  when  he  retired  under  the  plea 
of  want  of  health,  and  gradually  went  into  obscurity,  and 
under  a  cloud,  and  finally  passed  away.  This  was  John,  D. 
Puyh,  who  certainly  had  talents  to  be  useful,  if  he  had  in  all 
respects  improved  his  ppportunities. 

272.  The  three  remaining  districts,  the  Kingston,  Brockville, 
and  Bytown,  require  brief  annotation.  The  Rev.  M.  Baxter  had 
no  assistance  on  Newborough  ;  and  I  have  not  learned  the 
supply  for  Hinchinbrooke.  Richard'  Keegan,  a  hired  local 
preacher,  a  mighty  man  of  faith,  was  Rev.  S.  Hurlbert's  assis- 
tant on  the  Maitland  Circuit.  Edwin  Peake  was  second 
preacher  at  Garleton  Place,  of  whom  more  anon.  The  Rev. 
T.  Mi-Mullen  had  no  helper  at  Portage  du  Fort,  &c.  ;  and  I 
cannot  ascertain  the  supply  for  Westmeath. 


130  CASE,    AND 

273.  This  was  a  year  of  great  activity  and  of  great  success. 
Every  department  of  the  Connexional  work  seemed  to 
prosper.  The  editor  met  the  many  assailants  of  Wesleyan 
Methodism  in  a  manner  to  give  them  an  unpleasant  recollec- 
tion of  the  encounter.  The  Guardian  was  very  popular 
and  useful  in  the  Connexion,  and  increased  its  circula- 
tion. The  Sunday  School  Advocate  also  was  making  its 
way. 

274.  The  College  was  performing  great  things  considering 
the  small  money  resources  at  its  command.  The  attempt  to 
create  an  endowment  by  the  issue  of  scholarships,  commenced 
in  a  previous  year,  was  prosecuted  with  more  vigor  during 
this  one.  The  Rev.  S.  D.  Bice,  though  burdened  with  the 
duties  of  the  important  Kingston  station  and  the  charge  of 
an  important  district,  by  the  help  of  a  curate,  redeemed  time 
to  go  extensively  through  the  Connexion  to  a  large  extent 
and  complete  the  endowment.  He  showed  his  usual  business 
energy  and  directness,  by  eschewing  a  carriage  and  its 
luxurious  accompaniments,  but  mounted  a  horse,  and 
threaded  his  way  into  each  hole  and  corner  of  the  country, 
where,  otherwise,  he  would  not  have  found  easy  access.  The 
scholarship  scheme  amounted  to  this  :  five  hundred  scholar- 
ships were  sold  at  one  hundred  dollars  each,  which  created  a 
fund  of  $12,500  dollars,  which  was  duly  funded  for  the 
benefit  of  the  College.  The  benefit,  however,  was  rather  to 
the  holders  of  the  scholarships  than  to  the  Institution.  A 
holderwas  entitled  to  send  one  pupil  for  twenty-five  years  with- 
out tuition  fees.  It  was  also  hoped  the  interest  of  the  money, 
and  the  profits  on  board,  would  be  a  present  indemnification 
to  the  College,  and  then  there  was  the  prospect,  after  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  of  the  whole  $12,500  would  constitute  an  un- 
incumbered revenue,  besides  bringing  the  College  into  notice 
by  increasing  the  number  of  students.  Before  the  twenty- 
five  years  were  expired,  it  is  believed  many,  if  not  most,  of 


HIS    COTEMPORAEIES.  131 

the  holders  of  those   scholarships  surrendered  them,  as  part 
of  a  measure  for  relieving  and  further  endowing  the  College. 

275.  As  an  indirect  means  of  helping  the  Institution,  it 
was  decided  at  the  Conference  of  1852,  that  as  the  Wesleyan 
Church  edifice  at  Cobourg  was  neither  corresponding  in  ap- 
pearance to  the  character  of  a  University  Church,  nor  provided 
with  accommodation  for  the  increased  number  of  worshippers 
furnished,  in  term  time,  by  the  students  from  all  parts  of 
the  country,  that  wherever  the  Quarterly  Official  Meeting 
of  a  circuit  would  give  permission,  the  superintendent  of  a 
circuit  should  take  up  a  collection  in  each  church  and  chapel 
within  his  charge  to  aid  in  the  erection  of  a  suitable 
University  Church.  •  The  appeal  was  generously  responded 
to  from  all  parts  of  the  Connexion,  and  a  suitable  church 
was  erected  and  completed. 

276.  During  both  sessions  of  the  collegiate  year,  the  staff 
of  professors  and  teachers  was  complete  and  the  number  of 
students  was  large : — One  hundred  and  twenty  in  the  autumn 
session.  At  that  session,  the  vacancy  created  by  Professor 
Wright's  going  into  the  ministry,  was  supplied  by  John 
Wilson,  Esq.,  A.M.,  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  who  has 
been  a  most  efficient  member  of  the  College  staff  until  this  day. 

277.  This  was  to  a  very  considerable  extent  a  church  and 
parsonage  building  year.  I  do  not  pretend  to  be  able  to 
furnish  all  that  was  done  in  that  direction  during  that  period. 
Suffice  it  to  say,  that  a  new  brick  church  was  erected  and 
opened  in  the  Village  of  Grafton,  in  the  Cobourg  Circuit,  on 
the  27th  of  June,  1852.  On  the  same  Sabbath,  a  new  Mis- 
sion Church  was  opened  at  New  Credit,  furnished  with  a 
steeple  with  a  tinned  spire.  The  Superintendent  of  Missions, 
the  I!ev.  Enoch  Wood,  performed  this  service,  attended  by 
Revs.  David  Wright  and  Peter  Jones.  The  Indians  upon 
this  occasion,  in  accordance  with  a  usual  custom  with  them 
towards  any  one  for  whom  they  have  regard,  gave  Mr. 
Wood  the  name  Ketc/te  Metiy,  the  Biy  Tree. 


132  CASE,   AND 

278.  On  August,  the  22nd,  President  Wood  opened  a  church 
in  Essa,  on  the  then  rising  Cookstown  Circuit,  under  the  push 
ing  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  L.  O.  Rice.  A  similar  event 
took  place  in  Port  Stanley,  under  the  superintendency  of  the 
Rev.  Richard  Whiting :  the  Rev.  Messrs.  Pollard  and  Taylor 
performed  the  opening  services.  The  church  at  the  head  of  the 
same  circuit,  St.  Thomas,  was  during  the  year  enlarged  and 
improved. 

279.  The  Methodist  Indians  at  Moraviantown,  at  last, 
rejoiced  in  the  possession  of  a  suitable  church.  It  was 
opened  on  the  22nd  of  September  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Dis- 
trict, who  was  also  Principal  of  the  Industrial  School  at  Mount 
Elgin — the  Rev.  Samuel  Rose.  The  missionary  in  charge  of 
the  Wardsville  Mission,  in  which  Moraviantown  was  included, 
the  Rev.  Charles  Silvester,  reported  at  the  same  time  the 
addition  of  twenty  souls. 

280.  Mr.  Wood  also  opened  a  new  church  in  the  township 
of  Reach,  four  miles  west  of  Prince  Albert,  in  the  Oshawa 
Circuit,  under  the  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  John  Law. 
This  opening  took  place  on  the  24th  of  October,  1852. 

281.  Hewitt's  Church,  on  the  Mono  Road,  which  had  been 
burnt,  was  restored  in  a  more  substantial  manner,  and  cleared 
of  debt.  This  was  due  to  the  energy  of  S.  C.  Philp,  the 
Superintendent  of  the  Humber  Circuit,  within  which  the 
church  was  comprised.  Fergus  at  last  rejoiced  in  a  sub- 
stantial church,  which  was  opened  by  the  Rev.  Messrs.  Wood 
and  Carroll,  in  the  fall  of  1852.  The  venerable  Solomon 
Waldron  was  superintendent. 

282.  Another  old  itinerant,  the  Rev.  Richard  Phelp,  put 
in  charge  of  an  extreme  and  neglected  end  of  the  former 
Chatham  Circuit,  Morpeth,  now  set  apart  as  a  separate  charge, 
rejoiced  in  the  completion  and  opening  of  the  church  in  that 
place,  which  had  long  been  in  a  state  of  suspense. 

283.  Carlisle,  an  outpost  of  the  Dundas  Circuit,  at  length 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  133 

had  its  large  society  and  congregation  furnished  with  a  suit- 
able place  of  worship.  The  openings  ervices  and  attendant 
festivities  were  of  a  profitable  and  pleasing  character.  Thorn- 
hill  also  got  a  new  church.  Devonshire  was  about  to  realize 
the  comforts  of  a  parsonage. 

284.  Gait,  in  the  St.  George  Circuit,  under  the  superin- 
tendency  of  the  Rev.  Ozias  Barber,  at  length  realised  the 
long-desired  accommodation  of  a  convenient  church.  It  was 
opened  by  the  eminent  brothers,  the  Revs.  William  and 
Egerton  Ryerson.  The  seventh  church  in  the  well-provided 
Malahide  Circuit  was  projected  by  the  Rev.  George  Ken- 
nedy. 

285.  Camp-meetings,  revivals  growing  out  of  them, 
protracted  and  special  services,  with  conversions  and  addi- 
tion of  members  under  the  ordinary  preaching,  were  charac- 
teristic of  the  year. 

286.  Camp-meetings  were  held  in  the  Brampton  Circuit, 
Rev.  William  Young,  promoter ;  Chatham,  Rev.  W.  Price, 
Superintendent ;  Strathroy,  Rev.  Jas.  Armstrong  in  charge, 
and  Mono,  in  the  Rev.  Lewis  Warner's  district ;  and  in  the 
Township  of  Woolwich,  in  the  Elora  Circuit,  under  the  Rev. 
S.  Waldron.  Great  revivals  in  this  and  the  adjacent  Peel 
Circuit  grew  out  of  the  Woolwich  Camp-meeting.  We 
repeatedly  hear  good  news  from  these  circuits,  especially  the 
Peel,  during  the  year. 

287.  A  similar  result  occurred  on  the  Strathroy  Circuit. 
Toronto  West,  under  Wilkinson  and  Douse,  was  all  in  a 
blaze.  Norwich  had  a  great  revival,  under  the  Rev.  M. 
Swann.  Jackson's  School-house,  Oshawa  Circuit,  was  the 
scene  of  a  revival.  Garden  River,  under  George  McDougall, 
was  repeatedly  heard  from.  Bruce  Mines,  with  its  pastor, 
E.  Sallows,  repaid  attention. 

288.  There  was  a  revival  among  the  Tuscarora  Indians 
in  charge  of  Abraham  Sickles,  the  Oneida  missionary.     The 


134  CASE,    AND 

same  was  reported  from  Middle  Road,  Nelson  Circuit. 
Indeed,  this  circuit,  as  was  usual  with  circuits  under  the 
pastoral  care  of  the  laborious  McCollum,  reported  favorably- 
several  times  during  the  year.  Richmond  Circuit,  under  the 
energetic  and  indefatigable  Greener,  reported  large  accessions 
once  and  again.  But  no  retired  field  of  labor,  all  circum- 
stances considered,  enjoyed  so  long-continued  a  tide  of  pros- 
perity and  such  a  large  influx  of  members  as  the  Proton 
Mission,  under  the  modest  and  retiring  Joseph  Hill. 

289.  But  the  greatest  accessions  were  realized  in  two 
principal  cities,  Kingston  and  Hamilton,  which  enjoyed 
between  them  the  evangelistic  labors  of  the  Rev.  James 
Caughey,  combined  with  the  most  untiring  efforts  of 
the  ministers  in  those  two  cities — the  Rev.  Messrs.  Rice 
and  Lavell  in  Kingston,  and  Messrs.  Carroll  and  Bredin  in 
Hamilton.  The  clear  increase  of  membership  in  the  former 
city  was  one  hundred  and  twelve,  and  in  the  latter  one 
hundred  and  ninety-seven.  The  circuits  adjacent  to  these 
two  cities  also  largely  partook  of  the  benefits. 

290.  The  only  wonder  is,  that  the  general  augmentation  of 
numbers  in  the  Province  did  not  prove  greater  than  what 
was  counted  up  at  the  end  of  the  year.  The  general  gain 
was  2,739,  making  the  total  Connexional  strength  at  the 
Conference  of  1853  to  be  30,325. 

291.  We  turn  briefly  to  Canada  East.  A  statement  of 
the  affairs  of  the  Eastern  District,  under  the  hand  of  its 
temporary  chairman,  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Slight,  A.M.,  will 
obviate  the  necessity  of  constructing  one  myself.  It  was  pub- 
lished in  the  Guardian,  under  the  date  of  June  9th,  1852: — 

292.  "  The  ministers  of  the  Eastern  Canada  District 
assembled  together  in  the  City  of  Montreal,  Wednesday,  1 9th 
of  May,  1852,  to  transact  the  usual  business  of  the  District. 

293.  "  The  entire  sessions  were  eminently  characterized 
by  unanimity  of  feeling  and  brotherly  love.     Much  of  the 


HIS   COTEMPOEARIES.  135 

divine  presence  was  experienced  in  the  usual  devotional 
exercises,  and  during  one  of  the  elucidations  of  the  brethren 
on  the  several  points  of  doctrine,  discipline,  and  practice 
which  designedly  or  incidentally  came  before  the  meeting  ; 
but  more  especially  still  when  the  question  came  up  for 
consideration,  '  What  measures  can  be  adopted  to  promote 
the  work  of  God  in  this  District  1 '  The  reading  of  the 
Liverpool  Minutes  of  themselves  produced  a  solemn  effect, 
and  furnished  several  suggestions  of  an  important  character, 
which  appeared  to  be  deeply  impressive,  on  the  minds  of  the 
assembly. 

294.  "  It  was  matter  of  devout  gratitude  that,  although 
sickness  and  death,  in  a  more  than  ordinary  degree,  have 
been  desolating  the  land,  yet  we  met  with  undiminished 
numbers.  A  still  greater  cause  of  thankfulness  was  found 
to  exist :  all  were  alive  in  a  much  more  important  sense  of 
the  term — morally,  spiritually  so.  The  examinations  of 
character  elicited  no  defections  and  no  cause  of  censure. 

295.  "  The  reports  furnished  of  the  spiritual  state  of  the 
work  have  afforded  matter  of  encouragement  and  gratitude. 
On  every  station  there  has  been  an  ingathering  of  souls  ; 
and  on  some  of  them  there  have  been  witnessed  remarkable 
displays  of  the  power  of  God  in  the  gospel.  Yet,  from  the 
frequent  removals  and  other  causes,  the  increase  of  numbers 
is  small. 

-96.  "  Three  young  brethren,  who  were  probationers  for 
our  ministry,  were  examined  on  theological  subjects  and  on 
other  matters  relative  to  our  work,  and  passed  in  a  highly 
creditable  and  satisfactory  manner,  and  were  recommended 
to  be  continued  in  their  probationary  career.  From  the 
peculiar  nature  and  circumstances  of  the  stations  to  which 
two  of  these  brethren  were  appointed,  they  were  designated 
to  receive  ordination,  although  the  term  of  their  proba- 
tion had  not  expired.     The  ordination  services   were    con- 


136  CASE,    AND 

ducted  in  Great  St.  James  Street  Church.  A  sermon  was 
preached  by  the  Rev.  J.  C.  Davidson,  and  an  impressive 
charge  delivered  to  the  young  men  by  our  respected  chair- 
man, the  Rev.  William  Squire. 

297.  "  The  anniversary  meeting  of  the  District  Branch 
Missionary  Society  was  held  in  Great  St.  James  Street 
Church  on  Tuesday  evening,  William  Lunn,  Esq.,  in  the 
chair.  Resolutions  were  ably  moved  and  seconded  by 
several  clerical  and  lay  brethren. 

298.  "  Important  business  respecting  the  future  position 
and  relations  of  this  District,  as  a  portion  of  the  great 
Wesleyan  family,  has  occupied  a  considerable  portion  of  our 
attention  during  the  sittings  of  this  assembly,  and  measures 
calculated  to  promote  our  future  prosperity  were  adopted. 
We  have  every  reason  to  believe  that  the  members  of  our 
Church  will  efficiently  co-operate  with  us. 

299.  "  Our  highly-esteemed  brother,  the  Rev.  Jas.  Brock, 
has  been  unanimously  appointed  as  a  representative  of  this 
District,  to  present  you  our  friendly  and  brotherly  regards. 
As  branches  of  the  same  common  Methodism,  residing  in 
the  same  "  (united)  "  Province  of  the  British  Empire,  we 
feel  anxious  to  take  every  opportunity  of  cementing  the 
bonds  of  union  and  of  strengthening  each  other's  hands." 

300.  Two  or  three  paragraphs  of  this  partially-abridged 
letter  give  unmistakable  indication  that  the  idea  of  incor- 
poration in  the  Upper  Canada  Conference,  which  took  place 
two  years  later,  had  begun  to  take  fast  hold  of  the  Wesleyan 
ministers  and  members  in  that  part  of  the  united  Province. 

301.  Mr.  Slight  furnished  the  following  list  of  stations 
for  the  year  1852-53  :— 

Montreal  Centre — John  Jenkins. 
Montreal  West — William  Squire. 
Montreal  Hast — G.  N.  A.  F.  T.  Dickson. 
Quebec — John  Borland. 


HIS   COTEMPORABIES.  137 

Three  Rivers — Charles  De  Wolfe,  A.M. 

Baivdon  and  Wesleyville — John  Douglas. 

St.  Johns  and  Ghambly — John  C.  Davidson. 

Huntingdon — George  H.  Davis. 

Busseltoum — Thomas  Campbell. 

Odelltoum  and  Hemmingford — Jas.  Brock,  Geo.  Douglas. 

Clarenceville — Henry  Lanton. 

St.  Armands— Edmund  S.  Ingalls. 

Durham — Hugh  Montgomery. 

SJiefford — Rufus  A.  Flanders. 

Stanstead — John  Tomkins. 

Compton  and  Hatley — Malcolm  McDonald. 

Sherbrooke  and  Eaton — Benjamin  Slight,  A.M.,  John 
Armstrong. 

Melbourne — -William  Scott. 

Leeds — Gilford  Dorey. 

302.  The  first  tidings  we  get  from  this  district  after  their 
District  Meeting  is  in  a  communication  to  the  Guardian, 
from  the  Rev.  John  Borland,  Quebec,  under  the  date  of 
July  22nd,  1852.  It  is  as  follows  : — "We  are  moving  on 
here  in  a  quiet  way,  yet  we  think  we  hear  the  sound  of  a 
going  in  the  tops  of  the  mulberry  trees.  Three  penitents 
were  blessed  with  peace  last  Sabbath  evening,  and  four 
others  continue  seekers.  But  what  are  these  among  so 
many  !  Scores  !  hundreds  !  !  thousands  !  !  !  are  hurrying  to 
ruin,  and  but  one  now  and  then  are  drawn  out  of  the  fearful 
vortex.  We  have  had  some  affecting  providences  here  of 
late — one  in  the  falling  of  a  portion  of  the  Cape,  by 
which  seven  persons  were  killed,  two  of  them  members  of 
our  Church.  The  man  (Robert  Webb)  was  a  worthy  leader 
and  local  preacher.  We  lose  much  by  his  removal.  Another 
case  is  a  prominent  inhabitant  of  this  city.  He  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  Sabbath  in  fishing  and  in  other  flagrant 
forms  of  Sabbath-breaking,   and  by  six  o'clock  on  Monda 


138  CASE,   AND 

morning  he'was  summoned  into  the  presence  of  the  Judge 
whose  law  he  had  so  fearfully  violated." 

303.  The  next  news  was  sorrowful,  not  unmixed  with  joy 
and  hope,  namely  :  the  sudden  but  triumphant  death  of 
another  of  their  ministers,  the  most  influential  in  the 
district — the  Rev.  "William  Squire,  of  Montreal  West. 
This  occurred  on  Sabbath  morning,  the  17th  of  October, 
after  a  few  hours'  illness.  He  attended  the  funeral  of  a  Mr. 
Samuel  Young,  a  worthy  Methodist  from  Canada  West,  who 
died  at  a  hotel,  of  cholera,  on  Friday,  the  15th.  Mr.  Squire 
attended  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Young  on  Saturday  evening, 
and  shortly  after  returning  home  he  was  attacked  with 
strong  symptoms  of  the  same  disease.  Medical  advice  was 
immediately  obtained,  but  from  the  commencement  of  the 
attack  he  is  reported  to  have  had  no  hopes  of  recovery.  All 
efforts  to  arrest  the  disease  were  in  vain,  and  early  on  the 
Sabbath  he  ceased  to  breathe.  He  will  come  to  view  among 
the  obituaries  hereafter. 

304.  About  this  time  a  letter  appeared  in  the  Guardian 
from  a  spirited  layman  of  Montreal,  proposing  to  double  the 
amount  of  missionary  money  raised  in  Canada,  and  to 
decline  the  receipt  of  any  from  England,  as  the  Methodists 
of  this  country  were  better  able  to  sustain  their  own  mis- 
sions in  the  Provinces  than  English  societies  were  to  spare 
them  the  balance  between  their  receipts  and  their  outlay. 
Something  certainly  true  of  all  sorts  of  Methodists  in  those 
Provinces  now,  compared  with  those  from  whom  missionary 
appropriations  come  in  the  British  Isles.  The  Methodists 
of  Montreal  called  a  public  meeting,  and  recommended  a 
day  of  thanksgiving  for  the  blessings  of  a  bountiful  harvest. 

305.  A  layman  had  written  to  the  Guardian  rather 
despondingly  about  Lower  Canada  Methodist  operations. 
The  following  was  written  as  a  corrective  by  "  G.  H.  D." 
He  says  :  "  Blessed  be  the  Lord  our  God  we  have  peace  in 


HIS    COTEMPOEARIES.  139 

all  our  borders,  prosperity  in  many  of  our  palaces,  and 
never  since  the  writer  came  to  the  country  were  the  pros- 
pects brighter.  Our  cause  in  the  cities,  which  during  the 
last  four  or  five  years  suffered  somewhat  from  removals, 
consequent  upon  the  commercial  depression,  fires,  and  other 
disasters  that  have  taken  place,  is  beginning  to  resume  its 
former  state,  and  both  in  Quebec  and  Montreal  there  are 
grateful  signs  of  coming  prosperity.  Through  the  country 
circuits,  with  but  one  or  two  exceptions,  a  similar  state  of 
things  exists.  In  some  the  work  of  God  is  being  carried  on 
blessedly.  In  this  circuit  "  (Huntingdon)  "  the  Lord  is 
working  mightily,  and  has  been  for  months  back.  Sinners 
in  scores  are  being  converted.  In  every  part  of  the  circuit, 
through  an  extent  of  oountry  measuring  thirty  miles  in 
length  and  ten  in  breadth,  the  arm  of  the  Lord  has  been 
made  bare.  No  fewer  than  one  hundred  and  twenty,  and 
from  that  to  one  hundred  and  fifty,  souls  have  during  the 
last  few  months  professed  to  obtain  salvation,  the  forgive- 
ness of  sins,  and  the  regenerating  grace  of  God.  Still  the 
work  goes  on,  and  I  solemnly  believe  it  will  go  on  till  the 
whole  of  this  extent  of  country  is  leavened  with  the  heav- 
enly influence  of  the  love  of  God  and  the  power  of  His 
Spirit."  Then  follows  a  detailed  account  of  a  fruitful  mis- 
sionary anniversary,  tea-meeting,  and  bazaar  for  furnishing 
the  circuit  parsonage.  Net  proceeds  over  two  hundred  and 
eighty  dollars. 

306.  As  we  have  fairly  illustrated  the  spirit  and  doings 
of  the  brethren,  and  our  space  is  diminishing,  we  go  in 
search  of  no  materials,  but  inquire  for  the  net  numerical 
result  of  this  year  of  labor.  The  numbers  stood  3,740,  an 
increase  of  one  on  the  previous  year.  These  3,740,  joined 
to  the  30,324  in  the  ranks  of  Wesley  an  Methodism  in 
Canada  West,  made  the  total  strength  of  the  two  sections 
of  the  noble  army  34,064. 


140  ,  CASE,    AND 

1853-54. 

307.  The  Conference  at  the  beginning  of  this  year  was 
preceded  with  the  tidings  that  the  Eastern  Canada  District 
Meeting  had  voted  unanimously  for  union  with  the  Canada 
Conference ;  and  was  in  due  time  visited  by  a  deputation 
from  that  body,  consisting  of  the  Reverends  John  Jenkins, 
John  Borland,  and  James  Brock,  who  made  their  appearance 
by  the  third  day  of  the  Conference,  and  stated  their  busi- 
ness.    But  we  must  not  anticipate  the  current  of  events. 

308.  As  will  be  generally  known,  the  Rev.  Enoch  Wood, 
in  virtue  of  his  appointment  by  the  British  Conference,  took 
the  chair  of  the  Canada  Conference  on  the  morning  of  Wed- 
nesday, the  first  of  June,  1853.  The  session  took  place  in 
McNab  Street  Church,  Hamilton,  and  lasted  until  the 
tenth  of  the  month.  A  brother,  distinguished  by  unusual 
ability  and  who  had  been  seventeen  long  years  in  the  minis- 
try, but  who  had  never  been  appointed  to  any  very  promi- 
nent office,  who  had,  indeed,  shrunk  from  notoriety,  was  this 
year  elected  by  an  almost  "  unanimous  vote  "  to  the  highest 
position  in  the  gift  of  the  Canada  brethren,  the  Secretaryship 
of  the  Conference.  This  was  the  first  of  a  series  of  upward 
strides  in  Connexional  confidence  and  favor  of  the  Rev. 
Wellington  Jeffers,  now,  and  for  many  years,  Doctor  of 
Divinity.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  he  performed  his  duties 
efficiently.  The  Rev.  Isaac  Brock  Howard  was  appointed 
Journal  Secretary,  and  Rev.  E.  B.  Harper  and  Rev.  John 
Gemley  were  appointed  Assistant  Secretaries. 

309.  Four  were  received  into  full  connexion  with  the 
Conference  and  ordained.  Three  of  these  had  grown  up 
under  the  eye  of  the  Conference,  and  have  been  made  known 
to  the  reader.     They  were  thoroughly  Canadian  and  Wes- 

eyan  in  all  respects.     These  were  Isaac  Barber,  William 
Smith  Griffin,  and  Andrew  A.  Smith, 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  141 

310.  But  besides  these,  another  brother  came  recommended 
from  a  smaller  section  of  Canadian  Methodism,  and  was  re- 
ceived into  full  connexion,  his  orders  being  acknowledged. 
This  was  the  Rev.  Ephraim  L.  Koyle,  a  native  of  the  Town- 
ship of  Kitley,  who  had  received  a  respectable  commercial 
education  and  had  several  years'  experience  of  commercial 
matters.  He  had  been  converted  in  the  central  body,  but 
became  alienated  from  the  society  to  which  he  belonged  and 
had  united  himself  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of 
Canada,  re-constructed  in  1834,  and' had  been  preferred  by 
them  to  their  ministry,  in  which  he  had  occupied  a  respec- 
table place  for  ten  or  twelve  years.  But  becoming  convinced 
in  his  own  mind  that  the  disruption  which  gave  rise  to  the 
organization  to  which  he  belonged  was  not  justifiable  and 
that  so  many  organizations  were  not  needed,  he  sought  to 
return  to  his  former  friends,  and  his  advances  were  recipro- 
cated. His  reception  was  the  result.  He  was  a  man  of 
very  considerable  attainments  adapted  to  the  ministerial 
work,  and  otherwise  well-informed.  Furthermore,  his  ur- 
banity and  genteel  deportment  recommended  him  to  favor. 
He  was  pious  and  laborious,  but,  from  some  cause  or  an- 
other, although  often  the  secretary  of  his  district,  he  has 
been  scarcely  appreciated  according  to  his  deserts. 

311.  The  ranks  of  the  probationers  were  recruited  by  no 
less  than  eleven  candidates,  who  were  received  on  trial  for 
the  ministry,  namely  :  Richard  John  Forman,  William  Mc- 
Donagh,  Andrew  Edwards,  Samuel  Edward  Maudsley,  Allen 
Salt,  Thomas  Woolsey,  Orren  H.  Ellsworth,  Edwin  Peake, 
and  Thomas  Pearson.  Messrs.  McDonagh,  Edwards,  Ells- 
worth, and  Pearson  have  passed  in  review  before  the  reader, 
as  having  been  known  to  labour  on  circuits  under  chairmen 
of  districts  the  preceding  year.  The  brethren,  Maudsley, 
Woolsey,  and  Peake,  might  have  been  placed  in  the  same 
category  had  I  possessed  the  information  while  writing  the 


142  CASE,   Aftb 

account  of  1852-53  which  I  now  possess  at  the  beginning 
of  1853-54. 

312.  Brother  Samuel  Edward  Maudsley  was  a  native  of 
England,  and  only  came  to  this  country  a  short  time  before 
being  called  out.  He  was  a  bachelor,  but  not  so  young  a 
man  as  most  are  when  they  enter  the  field.  He  had  evi- 
dently had  considerable  experience,  both  as  a  Christian  and 
a  lay  preacher,  when  he  came  here,  besides  possessing  powers 
of  mind  and  gifts  original  and  peculiar.  He  was  a  person 
of  medium  size,  ordinary  appearance,  and  of  quiet,  undemon- 
strative manner.  This,  added  to  the  fact  that  I  never 
labored  in  the  same  district  with  him,  prevented  me  from 
obtaining  much  acquaintance  with  this  excellent  man,  and 
his  not  being  on  the  efficient  list  the  present  year,  and  with- 
out a  known  address,  I  am  unable  to  go  much  beyond  rumor 
and  surmise.  Furthermore,  this  brother  having  remained 
single,  being  equal  to  almost  any  kind  of  work,  and  having 
shown  a  disposition  to  obey  the  Connexional  authorities  im- 
plicitly, has  been  sent  to  such  remote  places,  and  has  alter- 
nated between  such  wide  extremes,  that  those  in  a  central 
position  have  had  a  poor  opportunity  of  cultivating  his 
acquaintance.  But  of  this  I  am  sure,  that  the  Conference, 
in  the  person  of  Brother  Maudsley,  received  one  of  the  best 
minds,  unique  preachers,  and  faithful  laborers  they  ever 
numbered  within  their  ranks,  and  from  the  few  specimens 
he  deigned  to  afford  us,  it  is  plain  his  writing  was  as  eleva- 
ted and  original  as  his  preaching.  His  was  a  sprightly  and 
tasteful  literary  talent.  According  to  the  best  information 
we  can  get,  our  subject  labored  during  the  foregoing  year, 
namely,  1852-53,  on  the  St.  Vincent  Circuit,  as  the  col- 
league of  Bev.  Alexander  Campbell. 

313.  Thomas  Woolsey  was  a  native  of  England,  coming 
here  from  the  City  of  London,  where  he  had  been  an  active 
local  preacher   for  seven  years.      He  was  sizable,  active, 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  143 

voluble  as  a  speaker,  communicative  among  the  people,  and 
destined,  as  we  shall  see,  to  perform  a  work,  distant  and  toil- 
some, for  several  years. 

314.  Edwin  Peake  was  also  English,  from  Devonshire,  but 
not  so  old  as  either  of  the  last  two  brethren,  nor  was  he  so 
large,  being  rather  under,  than  over,  the  medium  size.  He 
had  spent  the  preceding  year  along  with  the  Rev.  Wm.  Mc- 
Gill,  on  the  Carleton  Place  Circuit,  which  recommended  him, 
at  its  close,  to  the  Conference  to  be  received  on  trial,  and  re- 
ceived him  back  the  next  year  as  their  junior  preacher  for 
another  twelve  months.  His  talents  were  average  at  least, 
and  while  he  remained  in  connection  with  Methodism  he 
commanded  medium  circuits. 

315.  Allen  Salt  has  come  before  the  reader  before  in  vari- 
ous relationships,  and  he  had  often  fulfilled  the  duties  of 
missionary  before,  although  never  till  this  year  had  he  the 
honor,  though  an  honor  well  deserved  by  him,  of  having  his 
name  in  the  Minutes  of  Conference.  He  was  an  Indian  of 
the  Belleville,  Grape  Island,  or  Alnwick  band,  naming  them, 
if  you  like,  according  to  their  successive  places  of  abode, 
but  he  was  comely  in  boyhood,  youth,  and  manhood.  A 
thoroughly  "red  man,"  he  was  well-proportioned  and  sym- 
metrical. He  was  a  pretty  little  Indian  boy,  a  lithe  and 
sprightly  stripling,  and  has  become  the  majestic  and  well- 
developed  man  of  middle  age.  Early  brought  under  the 
power  of  converting  grace,  and  among  the  most  disposed  to 
profit  by  one  of  the  best  mission  schools  in  the  work,  he  be- 
came one  of  the  most  advanced  pupils  and  scholars,  whether 
in  childhood  or  youth.  He. was  the  pet  and  boast  of  the 
"  Father  of  Indian  Missions  "  throughout,  who  often  exhib- 
ited him  as  a  specimen  of  the  success  of  mission  teaching 
and  the  capacity  of  the  Indian  mind  for  improvement.  Mr. 
Suit,  at  the  time  of  his  reception  on  trial,  was  married,  and 
could  not  have  been  less  than  thirty-five  years  of  age.     The 


144  CASE,    AND 

matured,  intelligent  man  was  he,  who  had  acquired  experi- 
ence in  teaching  and  speaking  in  various  ways  and  under 
various  circumstances.  His  attainments  and  manners  would 
have  done  no  discredit  to  one  of  the  civilized  white  race. 
Our  subject  has  since  proved  himself  a  most  reliable  and 
valuable  missionary  among  his  own  people. 

316.  Richard  John  Forman,  though  last,  not  least,  was 
destined  to  prove  one  of  the  most  quietly  continuous 
laborers, — one  of  the  wisest  and  best  superintendents, — one  of 
the  best  financiers, — and  one  of  the  soundest,  wearing,  feed- 
ing, satisfying  preachers  in  the  body.  Our  being  able  to  say 
so  much,  at  the  butset,  will  awaken  the  inquiry  as  to  his  ap- 
pearance, age,  and  antecedents  up  to  the  time  when  presented 
to  the  Conference  as  a  candidate  for  the  ministry  of  the 
Church.  We  are  glad  we  have  authentic  data  for  satisfying 
these  reasonable  inquiries.  Bro.  Forman  was  then  a  young 
man  of  twenty-four  years  of  age,  medium-sized,  rather  tall 
tnan  short,  spare  but  muscular,  dark-complexioned  and  en- 
during. Just  the  sort  of  man  to  work  long  and  efliciently 
without  breaking  up.  He  was  of  English  parentage,  but 
born  in  Radnorshire,  Wales,  November  19th,  1830.  His 
parents  were  religious,  and  he  himself  was  converted  to  God 
in  Dudley,  under  the  ministrations  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Hulme, 
New  Connexion  minister,  which  people  he  joined  at  the 
early  age  of  eleven  years.  The  family  came  to  Canada  in 
1845,  when  he  was  a  youth  of  fifteen  years,  and  settled  in 
Pickering,  near  Toronto.  He  joined  the  Wesley ans  at 
Duffin's  Creek,  and  became  a  leader  and  Sabbath-school 
superintendent,  and  soon  commenced  preaching  in  a  local 
sphere.  The  Markham  Quarterly  Meeting  proposed  him  to 
the  District  Meeting  as  a  candidate  for  the  ministry,  where 
he  was  examined  and  accepted,  along  with  several  others  who 
have  been  mentioned,  at  Toronto,  in  1853. 

317.  There  was  no  change  made  in  the  staff  officers  at  the 


HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES.  145 

Book-room  and  Printing  Establishment ;  the  Rev.  Anson, 
now  Doctor,  Green,  recently  honored  with  a  degree  from  one 
of  the  most  distinguished  universities  in  the  United  States, 
was  continued  as  Book-steward ;  and  the  Rev.  James  Spencer 
was  re-appointed  Editor.  The  Rev.  Thomas  Demorest  was 
continued  agent  of  Connexional  funds,  and  was  indefatigable 
and  successful  in  his  work. 

318.  Pre-supposing  that  the  reader  has  access  to  the 
Stations  of  Conference  through  the  published  Minutes,  1  pro- 
ceed to  elucidate  the  points  which  the  Minutes  left  unex- 
plained, and  that  because  the  work  I  have  assigned  myself 
is  to  deal  with  the  personnel  of  the  laborers,  and  the  starting 
point  and  early  history  of  each  is  important. 

319.  Two  of  the  most  important  circuits  in  the  Toronto 
District  had  each  a  third  preacher  to  be  supplied  by  the 
chairman.  The  first  was  the  noble  Brampton  Circuit,  fur- 
nished with  such  matured  ministers  as  Nankevill  and 
Tupper,  but  it  needed  a  third  to  aid  in  supplying  the  Sab- 
bath appointments,  at  least.  The  circuit  itself  furnished  the 
needed  supply.  A.  young  man,  born,  I  suspect,  in  the  Town 
of  York,  whose  very  pious  parents  were  residing  in  the 
"  Harrison  neighborhood ; "  who  had  been  converted  in 
boyhood,  and  showed  himself  grave  and  steady  beyond  his 
years,  had  pursued  an  elementary  classical  course,  and  was 
now  attending  term  on  week-days  at  the  University  of 
Toronto,  where  he  afterwards  graduated,  was  an  eloquent 
preacher,  and  being  strong  and  active,  went  out  on  Satur- 
days and  took  a-third  of  the  Sabbath  work  on  the  Sundays, 
and  thus  helped  to  infuse  considerable  vigor  into  the  circuit. 
Ho  was  then,  perhaps,  in  the  neighborhood  of  twenty, 
slightly  more  or  less,  sandy-complexioned,  medium-sized,  but 
compact  and  heavy.  We  are  writing  of  Brother  Joseph  E. 
Sanderson,  A.M.,  now  Governor  of  the  Ladies'  College  at 
Whitby.     He  needs  no  further  introduction. 


146  CASE,   AND 

320.  The«strong  Nelson  Circuit,  as  it  often  happened,  was 
in  want  of  a  third  man.  He  was  a  worthy  associate  of  the 
Prestons,  Pearsons,  Woolseys,  and  Maudsleys,  with  whom 
the  Connexion  were  favored  about  that  time.  This  brother 
was  a  bachelor,  but,  perhaps,  nearer  thirty  than  twenty.  He 
was  the  son  of  an  eminent  English  "Wesleyan  minister, 
classically  educated,  a  skilful  physician  by  profession.  One 
of  the  most  conscientious  and  upright  of  men  was  he,  and  an 
experienced  and  able  local  preacher.  Never  very  smooth  in 
his  elocution,  but  destined  to  be  one  of  the  best  preachers 
and  ablest  Conference  debaters  in  the  body.  I  need  nothing 
further  than  to  pronounce  his  name,  Robert  Fowler,  M.D. 

321.  The  Hamilton  District  had  its  share  of  vacancies  to 
be  filled.  The  venerable  Solomon  Waldron,  at  Nantieoke, 
required  an  assistant.  The  first  part  of  the  year  he  was  aided 
by  a  young  Canadian  of  good  education,  the  son  of  a  loyal 
local  preacher,  and  brother  of  an  itinerant  preacher's  wife 
prospectively.  This  was  Ira  B.  Kilbom,  who,  for  some 
cause  which  I  cannot  recall,  although  I  was  the  chairman, 
removed  before  the  year  was  out  to  the  Guelph  District. 
He  ultimately  became  a  minister  in  the  United  States.  His 
place  was  supplied  for  the  balance  of  the  year  by  a  very  dis- 
similar man.  The  first  supply  was  a  Canadian,  this  one  was 
thoroughly  Irish.  The  former  had  come  from  the  employ- 
ment of  school  teaching,  this  one  was  dragged  from  the 
roughest  of  bush-farming.  That  one  had  more  education, 
this  one  proved  to  have  most  mind,  when  once  developed. 
And  when  the  itinerancy  and  the  College  had  ground  off  the 
native  roughness,  there  were  few  preachers  of  more  volubility 
and  power  than  Brother  John  V.  Wilson,  who  came  to  the 
rescue  of  the  work  in  an  emergency,  and  who  did  good 
service  to  the  cause  in  positions  which  were  not  sinecures.  He 
was  destined  to  spend  another  year  under  the  chairman,  but 
on  the  same  circuit,  and  when  received  on  trial  he  was  sent 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  147 

there  again.  Surely,  with  the  disadvantages  under  which  he 
began,  a  brother  who  could  sustain  himself,  almost  in  sight 
of  his  original  home,  three  consecutive  years  must  have  had 
stamina  and  resources. 

322.  Dunnville's  second  man  was  a  supply  provided  by  my- 
self, of  whom  we  have  had  some  glimpses  in  this  work  already. 
He  had  stood  by  his  partially  disabled  superintendent  in  the 
Nanticoke  Circuit,  within  the  bounds  of  which  he  taught  a 
school  during  the  two  preceding  years.  This  was  our  be- 
loved William  Tomblin,  a  native  of  England,  but  spiritually 
born  in  Canada,  An  attempt  to  conduct  a  Sunday-school  in 
a  destitute  neighborhood,  convinced  him  of  the  need  of 
religion,  and  led  him  to  seek  and  find  it.  He  soon  began  to 
preach  as  a  local  preacher.  He  came  to  our  help  with  the 
reputation  of  having  been  a  virtuous  boy,  a  filial  son,  a 
punctual  and  laborious  local  preacher,  and  the  amiable  and 
prepossessing  young  gentleman.  He  was  acute,  studious,  and 
well  informed  on  all  subjects  ;  but,  though  one  of  the  most 
diligent  pastors  and  best  superintendents,  the  great  demand 
for  vocal  power,  commanding  person,  and  brilliancy  has  pre- 
vented his  being  as  prominently  stationed  as  others  in  no  wise 
his  superiors.  Happily  he  has  been  principally  concerned  to 
commend  himself  to  his  Master  as  "  a  workman  who 
needeth  not  to  be  ashamed,  rightly  dividing  the  word  of 
truth." 

323.  We  must  supplement  such  omissions  of  the  Brantford 
District  as  we  have  required  data  for,  leaving  the  other 
points,  perhaps,  to  be  elucidated  before  we  go  to  press.  The 
district  was  in  charge  of  the  old  itinerant,  the  Rev.  William 
Ryerton,  whose  own  immediate  appointment  was  the  Indian 
mission  on  the  Grand  River.  He  was  to  have  "  one  sent" 
him,  but  suspect  his  only,  and  certainly  a  very  efficient,  assis- 
tant was  the  Rev.  Peter  Jones,  who  resided  on  his  own  estate 
near  Brantford,  and  who  was  placed  under  the  "  direction  of 


"148  CASE,   AND 

the  Superintendent  of  Missions."  But  as  his  distant  work 
was  not  onerous,  I  suspect  the  two  Indian  missions  on  the 
Indian  Reservation  enjoyed  a  large  part  of  his  ministrations. 
This  had  practically  been  his  position  since  1849,  and  con 
tinued  so  until  his  lamented  death  in  1856.  The  Rev.  Ozias 
Barber  needed  an  assistant  at  linger  soil,  but  was  fain  to  get  on 
with  an  aged  and  unwieldy  superannuate,  Father  Prindle, 
whose  original  thought  made  up  for  the  lack  of  activity.  The 
Rev.  Matthew  Swann,  on  the  Norwich  Circuit,  had  no  less 
than  two  such  helpers  during  the  year.  The  first  was  a 
young  man  by  the  name  of  Ditch,  who  failed  after  three 
months,  and  the  rest  of  the  year  was  supplied  by  a  local 
preacher.  The  quiet  but  laborious  and  faithful  Joseph 
Sheply  stood  for  Paris  both  this  year  and  the  next,  with 
"  one  wanted"  appended  to  his  name.  But  we  have  authentic 
information  that  neither  year  was  the  "  want"  supplied,  but 
the  uncomplaining  brother  went  on  with  his  work  in  the  best 
manner  he  could.  It  will  be  fulfilling  one  of  the  purposes  of 
this  book,  which  is  to  give  a  portraiture  of  all  the  labors,  to 
say,  that  by  some  mischance  the  usual  description  of  this  ex- 
cellent man,  now  twelve  years  in  the  work,  has  never  been 
given.  He  was  a  native  Canadian,  from  the  neighborhood 
of  Chatham.  A  Methodist  of  the  Methodists,  converted 
young,  decently  educated,  a  correct  speaker,  a  good  penman, 
a  correct  writer,  a  sound  preacher,  and  one  of  the  most  up- 
right men  who  ever  lived.  Nothing  but  want  of  "cheek" 
prevented  his  taking  a  much  more  prominent  position  than 
he  did.  He  was  loyal  to  the  Church  to  the  very  core,  and 
accomplished  much  in  a  quiet  way.  Rev.  George  Kennedy's 
assistant  at  Aylmer  was  a  chairman's  supply,  D.  M.  Hill,  of 
whom  more  anon. 

324.  The  London  District  had  but  one  vacancy.  Sandwich 
and  Windsor,  in  charge  of  the  strong  and  energetic  Edward 
"White,    "wanted"  a  second   preacher;  the   chairman,  the 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  149 

Rev.  Samuel  Rose,  supplied  that  want  with  a  small-sized 
young  man  of  respectable  connections,  who  himself  had  re- 
ceived some  preparatory  training  at  Victoria  College,  from 
St.  Thomas.  He  had  been  converted  under  the  powerful 
ministry  of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Pollard,  at  first  met  with  some 
discouragement  from  his  friends,  but  at  length  his  prudence 
and  piety  won  their  sympathies  to  Methodism.  His  abilities 
were  probably  average,  and  we  shall  see  that  after  his  early 
death,  his  brethren  bore  a  strong  testimony  to  his  character. 
325.  The  newly-created  Guelph  District,  presided  over  by 
the  pioneering  Lewis  Warner,  found  itself  with  three  vacancies 
at  the  beginning  of  1853-54.  Two  of  these  we  are  sure  the 
chairman,  usually  fortunate  in  such  matters,  succeeded  in 
supplying.  These  two  vacancies  were  first,  the  second  preacher's 
place  in  the  Elora  Circuit,  and  the  entire  charge  of  the  new 
and  important  Mitchell  Mission.  The  two  supplies  were 
young  men  above  the  average  in  excellence,  the  one  destined 
soon  to  seize  his  crown  in  the  skies,  the  other  to  fill  a  number 
of  important  positions  in  the  Canada  Church  for  nearly  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  and  then  to  be  the  bearer  of  the  gospel 
idmgs  to  the  people  of  a  "  strange  speech"  and  a  stranger 
civilization  in  the  Southern  hemisphere.  Some  will  surmise 
that  we  write  of  our  modest  and  lovable  George  Cochran.  Mr. 
Cochran  was  born  of  Protestant  parents,  in  the  County  of 
Cavan,  Ireland,  January  14th,  1834.  He  came  to  Canada 
with  his  parents  in  1837,  a  child  of  three  years.  They  spent 
some  time  in  Teoumseh.  Next  they  removed  to  Sullivan  and 
settled  on  a  new  bush  farm.  George  was  converted  on  the 
10th  of  March,  1852,  at  the  early  age  of  eighteen,  and  a  little 
more  than  a  year  thereafter,  that  is  to  say,  in  August,  1853, 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  years  and  five  months,  he  obeyed  Mr. 
Warner's  call,  and  went  to  be  the  colleague  of  the  Jivi\  James 
-I  /•  mUrori ;/, on  the  Elora  Circuit.  Nothing  could  be  more  re- 
markable than  this  person's  previous  and  subsequent  course. 


150  CASE,    AND 

How  wonderful  that  a  young  man,  not  twenty  years  of  age' 
without  the  advantages  of  College  or  Academy,  nay,-  of 
ordinarily  good  schools,  all  of  whose  experiences  of  the  world 
had  been  gained  in  back  townships  amid  land-clearers,  and 
nearly  all  of  whose  time  had  been  spent  in  chopping,  logging, 
harrowing,  reaping,  threshing,  and  the  like,  should  have  been 
fit  to  occupy  the  pulpit  at  all !  But  all  that  knew  him  at  the 
time  of  his  setting  out  say  that  (despite  a  naturally  plain 
exterior  and  a  boyish  uncouthness,  the  result  of  having  seen 
nothing  of  polished  life,  and  his  coarse  farmer's  garb)  he  was  the 
impressive  and  gifted  preacher  at  the  first  blush,  and  how  great 
has  been  his  improvement  since  !  Only  to  think  that  his  rough 
hand  should  have  learned  to  handle  the  pen  of  the  elegant  and 
"  ready  writer,"  and  that  his  untrained  mind,  without  an  hour 
at  college,  or  a  day's  exemption  from  circuit  work,  should 
have  become  the  accurate  accountant  and  correct  Financial 
Secretary,  the  thorough  grammarian,  the  elegant  speaker, 
the  eloquent  city  preacher,  the  able  expositor,  and  the  very 
considerable  Latinist,  Grecian,  and  Hebraist !  And  still  more 
wonderful,  that  in  his  conversation  he  should  have  become 
tasteful,  free  from  vulgarisms,  and  that  he  should  have 
learned  to  deport  himself  with  ease  and  politeness  in  genteel 
society.  The  whole  speaks  volumes  for  his  native  talent, 
sound  good  sense,  tact,  and  untiring  industry.  Mr.  Cochran's 
height,  was  five  feet  ten  inches,  and  his  weight  about  139 
pounds.  His  face  was  not  uncomely,  but  his  figure  was  better 
than  his  face.  Now,  at  the  age  of  forty-three,  the  head  of  the 
most  successful  mission  in  the  Empire  of  Japan,  it  is  impos- 
sible to  say  what  he  may  not  achieve  before  he  reaches  three- 
score years  and  ten,  with  the  blessing  of  that  God  who  has  so 
remarkably  favored  him. 

326.  Mitchell,  which  was  left  without  a  supply,  and  which 
received  none  until  February,  1854,  was  singularly  fortunate 
in  the  supply  it  did  receive  when  at  length  he  came.     Re- 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  151 

peated  communications  to  the  Guardian  during  this  and  the 
following  year  declare  the  man  and  the  success  which  crowned 
his  labors.  His  Conference  obituary,  which  we  give  entire, 
will  exhibit  the  whole  of  his  short  career  : — 

'•Brother  Lucius  Adams  was  a  son  of  Rufus  Adams,  Esq., 
of  Acton,  C.  W.  He  was  born  in  Esquesing,  in  the  year 
1830,  and  converted  to  God  in  childhood.  He  was  distin- 
guished by  his  assiduity  in  study  and  his  proficiency  in 
learning  while  a  student  at  Victoria  College,  and  at  Albion 
Institute,  in  the  State  of  Michigan.  In  February,  1854,  he 
was  sent  to  the  "Village  of  Mitchell,  in  the  County  of  Perth. 
Here  he  labored  with  great  acceptability  and  usefulness  until 
the  following  Conference,  when  he  was  regularly  received  on 
trial  as  a  candidate  for  our  ministry,  and  re-appointed  to  the 
same  field  of  labor,  in  compliance  with  the  earnest  request 
of  the  Mitchell  Quarterly  Meeting. 

"  Brother  Adams  was  a  young  man  of  great  promise,  both 
in  piety  and  talent.  In  Mitchell  a  cheering  revival  took 
place  under  his  ministiy,  and  many  members  of  our  Church 
who  had  been  "  scattered  abroad,"  were  gathered  into 
classes.  But  in  the  midst  of  usefulness,  his  life  and  labors 
were  suddenly  brought  to  a  close.  He  fell  a  victim  to  fever, 
on  the  29th  of  August,  1855,  in  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  his 
age. 

"  His  closing  hours  were  marked  by  no  other  anxieties 
than  he  felt  for  Ijic  prosperity  and  advancement  of  the 
work  of  God  on  this  mission.  His  end  was  peaceful  and 
happy." 

It  will,  perhaps,  interest  the  reader  to  know  that  this 
young  man  was  the  nephew  of  two  excellent  ministers  who 
have  often  come  to  view  in  the  pages  of  this  work,  from  the 
very  first  volume!  downwards,  namely  :  the  Rev.  Messrs. 
Ezra  and  Zenas  Adams.  He  was  also  the  brother  of  several 
ladies  known  as  educationists,  and  one  as  a  minister's  wife 


152  CASE,    AND 

326.  Of  the  second  preacher  for  Mono,  along  with  the 
godly  and  devout  Wm.  Steer,  we  have  no  certain  informa- 
tion to  this  date.  Rev.  L.  Warner  thinks  it  was  Edmuad 
Cooke.  But  Cornish's  Hand  Book  informs  us  that  Wel- 
lesley  had  a  strong  laborer,  and  gifted  preacher,  in  the  person 
of  a  newly-arrived  local  from  Ireland,  whom,  we  have  been 
told,  did  service  for  God  through  his  favorite  Methodism  in 
that  land.  He  was  married  on  his  entering  the  work  ;  and 
this  was  the  reason,  perhaps,  why  his  reception  on  trial  had 
failed  at  the  late  Conference,  although  he  had  done  good  ser- 
vice in  the  Erin  Mission  the  year  before.  He  was  fairly 
educated,  lively  in  his  ministrations,  and  successful.  But, 
for  two  reasons,  1  cannot  be  very  minute  :  I  never  had  the 
pleasure  of  being  his  neighbor,  and  the  data  upon  which  I 
had  relied  for  information  has  eluded  my  search  too  late  to 
seek  its  replacement.  But  Brother  John  L.  Kerr  is  not  un- 
known to  the  Connexion  in  Canada. 

327.  As  to  the  Owen  Sound  District,  the  printed  stations 
leave  Proton  as  to  be  served  by  a  chairman's  supply,  whereas 
all  our  information  goes  to  say  that  S.  E.  Maudsley  labored 
on  that  mission  through  the  year  1853-54,  and  the  Minutes 
of  Conference  inform  us  that  he  was  "  received  on  trial  "  at 
the  Conference  which  began  the  year.  St.  Vincent  was  to 
have  had  a  second  preacher  "  sent,"  but  the  then  chairman, 
Rev.  C.  Yandusen,  is  of  opinion  that  "  A.  Campbell  had  no 
colleague."  Derby  had  a  strong,  stout  brother,  English, 
but  thoroughly  Canadianized,  sent  to  take  care  of  it,  whose 
antecedents  I  may  know  better  when  I  record  his  reception 
on  trial.  This  was  David  Hunt.  The  North  Shore  of  Lake 
Superior  and  that  region  was  supplied,  in  two  separate  mis- 
sions, by  two  Indian  brethren,  namely,  George  Blaker  and 
James  Esquob.  The  chairman  went  along  in  person  and 
placed  them  on  their  missions.  Mr.  Blaker  was  a  man  of 
some  education  :  of  Esquob  I  know  nothing. 


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HIS   COTEMPOBAEIES.    ■  00 

328.  We  have  had  no  response  fronphe  then  l  s. 
chairman,  and  the  only  omission  is  scarcel^orth  loo  rng    p^ . 

329.  Cobourg  District  had  three  vacpcies.  Tne  sec°  ±- 
preacher's  place,  along  with  the  Rev.  ItaSmas  flanStf  ^toe, 
supplied  by  a  young  Canadian,  overtopping  his  superintend, 
dent  greatly  in  point  of  size.  He  was  the  son  of  excelled  n 
Methodist  parents,  who  lived  in  the  extreme  end  of  the 
peninsula  of  Prince  Edward's,  who  had  enjoyed  the  advan- 
tages of  Victoria  College  in  addition  to  good  school  opportuni- 
ties in  his  own  locality.  His  cranial  developments  indicated 
mental  power,  and  he  was  said  to  be  gifted"  and  powerful, 
but  I  can  lay  claim  to  no  data  by  which  to  speak  with  more 
accuracy  of  our  almost  gigantic  friend,  Brother  Garrett  J. 
Dingman. 

330.  A  young  man  by  the  name  of  John  Fawcett,  who 
labored  on  some  other  circuits  both  before  and  after  this 
year,  but  who  never  passed  through  a  regular  probation  and 
entered  the  Connexion,  was  the  assistant  of  the  indefatigable 
/.  C.  Slater,  on  the  Norwood  Mission. 

331.  The  BeUevUle  District  had  only  one  vacancy,  Hun- 
gerford,  and  that  vacancy  had  a  rather  unusual  supply.  A 
native  of  the  United  States,  who  had  served  in  the  American 
army  during  the  war  of  1812-15,  then  a  mere  boy,  came  into 
the  Province  after  the  war,  married  young,  and  settled  in 
business  in  the  Town  of  Brockville.  Soon  after  his  marriage 
he  became  converted  and  joined  the  Church,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  class-leaders  of  that  town,  if  not  the  very  first.  His 
house  was  a  stopping-place  for  all  the  ministers  who  came 
and  went,  for  many  years.  He  was  a  liberal  contributor  to 
all  the  funds  of  the  Church,  both  local  and  Connexional, 
trustee,  and  often  steward  as  well  as  leader.  He  had  stood 
by  the  cause  through  all  the  most  painful  crises  through, 
which  it  had  passed.  He  had  acquired  substance,  and  his 
not  very  large  family,  all  strongly  attached  to  Methodism, 

7* 


1,1 5  4:  CASE,    AND 

ettled  in  the  world,  and  he  now  partially  retired  from  busi- 
f  ness>  ajid  fished  to  spend  the  evening  of  his  days  in  useful- 
ness. No  one  had  thought  of  Brother  Luther  Houghton  as 
C  pr^ferier!  fie  was  an  instructive  leader,  powerful  in 
i Prayer,  and  a  good  Sabbath-school  superintendent,  but  he 
,did  not  ^eem  to  have  the  readiness  of  speech  that  marks  out 
the  preacher.  Nevertheless,  when  a  distinguished  local 
elder,  Rev.  Samuel  Heck,  passed  away,  and  his  loss  was 
much  felt,  Brother  Houghton  thought  he  should  try  to 
supply  his  lack  of  service,  and  began  to  preach  as  a  local 
preacher.  In  this  work  he  had  been  employed  some  three 
or  four  years,  when  the  thought  occurred  to  him,  though  in 
the  neighborhood  of  fifty,  to  offer  himself  for  a  circuit,  and 
he  was  accepted  to  supply  this  vacancy.  Ultimately  he  was 
received  on  trial,  and  in  the  end  ordained.  It  was  the  most 
unusual  case  which  had  occurred  in  later  times,  but  his  piety, 
long  experience,  loyalty  to  the  cause,  and  respectable  char- 
acter throughout  carried  him  through.  This  I  afterwards 
found  as  his  chairman  :  that  he  would  cheerfuly  go  to  bush 
missions  to  which  it  was  hard  to  find  a  single  young  man 
in  the  district  willing  to  go. 

332.  The  Kingston  District  had  three  preachers'  places  to 
be  supplied.  Hinchinhrooke  and  Storrington  I  give  up  in 
despair,  as  all  my  applications  for  information  have  failed. 
Of  the  second  preacher  at  Bath,  who  was  sent  as  the  assist- 
ant of  the  Rev.  George  Beynon,  I  believe  I  have  authentic 
information.  The  supply  was  Wm.  Bryers,  a  short,  stout, 
compact  young  Irishman,  within  four  years  from  the  Old 
Country,  with  a  face,  making  allowance  for  the  difference  of 
years,  very  much  like  that  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Burns,  late  of 
Toronto,  and  with  a  thoroughly  North  of  Ireland  accent. 
.He  had  heroism,  dash,  and  courage,  joined  with  a  fund  of 
patient  good-humor.  His  native  talents  were  good,  and  he 
had  information  which,  with  a  year  at  Victoria    College, 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  155 

raised  him  above  mediocrity  in  the  hard  work  he  was  des- 
tined to  perform.  The  following  salient  points  in  his  history 
are  from  himself,  and  therefore  authentic.  He,  says  of  him- 
self, "  I  was  born  near  the  Village  of  Moy,  County  Tyrone, 
October  16th,  1826.  I  came  to  New  York  State  in  1849. 
After  years  of  deep  religious  anxiety  I  was  enabled  to  claim 
Christ  as  my  Saviour  in  1851.  I  immediately  joined  the 
M.  E.  Church  in  that  state.  About  six  months  after  my 
conversion  I  came  to  Canada,  and  gave  my  certificate  to  the 
Kev.  John  Black,  then  on  the  Napanee  Circuit.  In  a  few 
months  he  gave  me  license  as  an  exhorter.  In  May,  1853, 
Rev.  D.  B.  Madden  had  me  authorized  to  preach  as  a  local 
preacher  and  in  July  of  the  same  year  I  was  placed  in  the 
Bath  Circuit." 

333.  The  Brockville  District  exhibited  one  vacancy.  The 
Rev.  Vincent  B.  Howa/rd,  on  the  Cornwall  Circuit,  had  to  look 
to  the  chairman's  arrangement  to  provide  him  a  colleague. 
He  was,  however,  disappointed  of  any  assistance  throughout 
the  year.  This  was  a  not  very  agreeable  change  from  his 
first  two  years  in  that  circuit,  during  which  he  had  the  effi- 
cient assistance  of  the  acceptable  and  laborious  William 
Burns. 

334.  The  Bytovm  District  had  two  apparent  vacancies. 
Lochaber  was  left  with  a  provisional  supply.  But  it  is  now 
known  that  Brother  Richard  Wilson,  whom  we  introduced  as 
being  received  on  trial  in  1848,  and  who  supplied  the  above- 
mentioned  mission  during  the  preceding  year,  also  remained 
this  succeeding  one. 

335.  There  was  a  veritable  chairman's  supply  of  the  second 
preacher's  place,  along  with  the  Rev.  Thomas  McMullen,  on 
the  Clarendon  and  Portage  du  Fort  Mission.  This  supply  that 
section  of  country,  so  fortunate  in  the  number  of  candidates 
for  the  ministry,  produced.  He  was  a  young  Irish-Cana- 
dian (if  not  born  in  Ireland),  the  third  preacher  from  the  one 


156  CASE,   AND 

family,  Andfew  Armstrong  by  name,  and  brother  of  James 
and  Noble  Armstrong.  He  was  a  dark-complexioned  young 
man,  of  even  greater  physical  proportions  than  his  sizable 
brothers,  and  of  average,  improvable  abilities,  and  though 
by  no  means  favored  with  easy  circuits,  destined  to  labor 
through  the  intermediate  twenty-four  years  between  then 
and  now  with  undiminished  vigor. 

336.  The  cases  of  two  members  of  Conference  and  one 
probationer  require  to  be  stated.  Aaron  D.  Miller ya  mem- 
ber on  trial,  through  indisposition,  was  required  to  take  a 
year's  respite  from  circuit  work.  The  Rev.  William  Andrews 
was  lent  to  the  Canada  Eastern  District  for  a  year,  and 
stationed  at  Compton.  And  the  Rev.  Erastus  Hurlburt  was 
more  than  lent,  for  he  was  destined  to  be  found  in  that 
district  the  next  year  and  comprehended  in  the  scheme  of 
amalgamation,  which  went  into  effect  after  the  Conference 
of  1854.  Mr.  Hurlburt's  Lower  Canada  circuit  was  Rawdon, 
where  he  was  respected  and  useful. 

337.  It  will  be  in  the  reader's  recollection  that  at  the 
Conference  of  1852  the  Rev.  Mr.  Case,  our  principal  subject, 
was  released  from  all  local  charge,  and  suffered  to  visit  any 
part  of  th«  Connexion  where  he  thought  he  might  subserve 
in  any  way  the  interests  of  the  cause.  One  object  he 
evidently  had  in  view  was  to  visit  his  early  friends  through- 
out the  Province,  with  whom  his  many  engagements,  for  the 
latter  half  of  his  life,  had  prevented  him  from  having  much 
intercourse.  One  of  the  scenes  of  his  most  successful  early 
labors  was  in  what  was  usually  called  "  The  Thames  country." 
There,  during  the  Conference  year  1809-10,  he  had  succeeded 
in  organizing  an  extensive  circuit,  and  was  the  instrument 
in  promoting  an  extensive  and  saving  revival.  His  heart 
had  yearned  after  the  Western  people  for  many  years,  and 
this  autumn,  it  would  appear,  those  yearnings  were  to  be 
gratified.     Gosfield  was  the  centre  of  the  original  "  Thames 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  157 

Circuit."  To  that  township,  which  now  gave  name  to  a 
circuit,  the  active  and  enterprising  William  Dignam  was 
appointed  at  the  Conference  of  1853.  He,  like  Mr.  Case, 
has  long  since  gone  to  his  reward.  Many  of  his  papers 
have  come  into  my  hands,  and  among  them  I  found  an  auto- 
graph letter  from  the  Rev.  William  Case,  carefully  labelled 
and  kept.  It  would  seem  that  Mr.  Case  had  passed  through 
the  country  by  the  main  road  to  the  Province  line  (indeed, 
the  letter  was  written  from  Detroit),  and  he  was  purposing 
■io  return  eastward  along  the  Lake  Erie  shore.  But  the 
letter,  which  I  give  entire,  will  speak  for  itself ;  and  it  will 
be  furnishing  one  of  the  few  remaining  glimpses  to  be  had 
of  one  whose  public  life  gives  name  and  character  to  these 
collections  : — 

338.  "  Detroit,  Sept.  20th,  1853. 

"  Dear  Brother, — Being  on  a  tour  [through  the  societies  in  the 
Western  portion  of  our  Church,  I  take  this  means  of  saying  that  I 
design  to  spend  the  ensuing  Sabbath  in  Gosfield,  and  that  you  are  at 
liberty,  if  you  judge  it  expedient,  to  give  me  two  appointments,  if  in 
two  different  settlements.  I  am  to  be  at  Amherstburg  on  Friday 
night,  and,  if  time  allow,  please  drop  me  a  line  (informing  me) 
of  the  place  and  of  the  services,  as  also  of  the  friends  on  whom  I 
am  to  call. 

"  I  have  my  own  conveyance,  and  Mrs.  Case  is  with  me. 

"  Please  do  me  the  favor  to  have  the  appointments  as  general " 
(generally  given  out)  "  as  may  be,  as  I  shall  wish  to  see  as  many  of 
my  old  friends  and  their  children  as  convenient. 

"  I  go  on  down  the  Lake  Koad  and  cross  to  Chatham  Monday  and 
Tuesday,  and  am  to  be  at  the  district  meeting  on  Wednesday  next. 

"  With  kind  regards  to  all,  farewell ! 

"  William  Case." 

We  may  have  something  more  of  this  kind  to  chronicle 
before  this  year  is  ended. 

339.  The  ministerial  strength  of  the  body — now  approach- 
ing two  hundred,  between  pastors  and  Connexional  office- 
hearers,   besides  the   hosts  of  local   preachers  and  circuit 


158  CASE,    AND 

officials  in  ^he  stations,  circuits,  and  missions  in  Canada 
"West,  and  the  outlying  missions — were  in  the  most  intense 
state  of  activity  during  this  ecclesiastical  year  (1853-54),  as 
will  appear  from  the  following  details. 

340.  As  spiritual  vitality  and  the  influx  of  members  truly 
converted  constitute  the  only  real  foundation  for  safe  and 
abiding  success  in  the  more  exterior  doings  of  the  Church,  I 
will  first  endeavor  to  furnish  something  like  a  summary 
digest  of  the  multitudinous  and  diversified  communications 
that  came  to  the  Connexional  organ,  besides  information 
from  other  sources. 

341.  We  have  referred  to  the  revival  that  occurred  in 
Hamilton  City  Circuit  during  the  latter  part  of  the  preced- 
ing year.  The  result  was  published  in  the  Guardian,  under 
the  hand  of  the  Superintendent,  Mr.  Carroll,  at  the  opening 
of  the  year  we  are  now  considering.  It  is  embraced  in  the 
following  excerpt : — "  A   careful   record   was   kept  of  the 

•evival,  a  synopsis  of  which  I  now  give,  as  furnished  me  by 
the  assiduous  Secretary,  Mr.  R.  D.  Wadsworth  : — During 
these  special  services,  which  commenced  March  the  24th 
and  closed  July  5th,  1853,  eighty  youths,  boys  and  girls, 
professed  conversion,  aged  from  nine  to  seventeen  years ; 
three  aged  men  were  converted,  whose  ages  severally  were 
fifty-six,  sixty-seven,  and  seventy-four ;  four  Roman  Catho- 
lics professed  conversion — one  man  and  three  women  ;  and 
one  Indian — teacher  of  Mount  Elgin  Industrial  School. 
The  whole  number  entered  in  the  register  as  having  received 
some  special  blessing  was  1,028.  Of  this  number  705  were 
justified,  of  whom  183  afterwards  professed  to  be  sanctified. 
There  were  142  backsliders  restored ;  purified,  in  all  458. 
Of  the  conversions,  630  were  from  the  world,  103  were  from 
other  Churches,  and  324  were  from  the  country  around. 
Besides  the  above,  the  books  present  fifty-four  as  '  quickened 
or  revived.'     These,  perhaps,  should  not  have  come  into  the 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  159 

account ;  but  we  are  persuaded  that  there  were  a  much 
larger  number  of  conversions  of  which  no  record  was  made, 
so  that  we  may  let  the  original  aggregate  stand  as  it  was. 
Of  the  persons  converted,  492  have  been  appointed  to  class, 
full  400  of  whom  are  meeting.  But  as  quite  half  of  these 
have  been  brought  in  since  the  last  renewal  of  tickets,  they 
do  not  appear  in  our  Conference  return.  This  revival  has 
been  free  from  extravagances,  while  it  has  been  character- 
ized by  the  most  extraordinary  power.  And  we  are  glad  to 
say  that,  though  the  special  services  are  '  closed,'  the  revival 
has  not  ceased.  Some  have  been  saved  at  nearly  every 
prayer-meeting  since  the  departure  of  God's  faithful  ser- 
vant," the  Rev.  James  Caughey. 

342.  The  first  impulse  to  the  revival  work  of  the  year 
was  given  by  camp-meetings.  This  year  they  were  numer- 
ous, spiritually  conducted,  and  divinely  owned.  The  key-note 
was  struck  so  early  as  the  10th  of  June,  1852,  by  the  enter- 
prising preachers  and  people  on  the  Peel  Circuit.  Next 
came  the  great  "  Union  Camp  Meeting "  for  the  Tonge 
Street,  Ilumber,  and  Newmarket  Circuits,  held  in  the  Town- 
ship of  Vaughan,  July  the  17th,  under  the  supervision  of 
an  old  adept  in  such  matters,  the  Rev.  Richard  Jones. 
Almost  coincidently  with  this  campaign — for  it  opened  the 
next  day,  the  18th — a  similar  one  was  in  progress  for  the 
lionefit  of  the  Cookstown  and  Barrie  Circuits  ;  and  a  little 
later  in  the  season,  on  the  30th  of  the  same  month,  and  a 
little  farther  north,  perhaps,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Hanna  and 
neighboring  ministerial  brethren  began  a  field  of  operations 
in  the  township  of  Mariposa,  for  the  quickening  of  that 
rogion. 

343.  I  have  not  preserved  the  dates,  but  the  camp-meeting 
spirit  and  camp-meeting  operations  extended  from  Cookstown 
north-westward,  to  St.  Vincent,  thence  on  to  Garden  River, 
where  a   wondrous   Indian   camp   meeting,    patronized    by 


160  CASE,    AND 

'Methodist  missionaries  and  their  embronzed  flocks  from  the 
shores  of  the  United  States.  Finally,  the  brethren  on  our 
south-western  frontier  felt  the  reflux  of  the  camp-meeting 
wave,  and  one  was  held  in  the  Dunnville  Circuit,  which  was 
followed  by  wider  and  more  permanent  results.  Also  in 
the  St.  George  Circuit  another.  The  brethren  concerned 
furnished  minute  and  encouraging  accounts  of  all  these 
onslaughts  on  irreligion  and  carelessness.  Finally,  the  old 
Augusta  Circuit  took  up  the  battle-cry,  and  held  a  similar 
meeting  in  the  township  of  Elizabethtown. 

344.  The  reader  will  not  be  surprised  to  hear  that  the 
Province  resounded  with  the  notes  of  revival  from  east  to 
west,  from  north  to  south,  and  from  the  circumference  to  the 
centre.  News  of  revival  came  (in  some  cases  two  or  three 
times  over),  embracing  accounts  of  tens,  fifties,  and  hundreds 
added  to  the  Church,  with  scores  of  believers  quickened  or 
sanctified,  from  Lachute,  St.  Andrews,  L'Orignal,  Westmeath, 
Matilda,  Crosby,  and  the  Brockville  District,  while  an  echo 
of  the  same  came  back  from  Bruce  Mines,  Garden  River, 
Goderich,  Windsor,  Wardsville,  St.  Thomas,  Blenheim,  and 
Dunnville.  The  north  glowed  with  the  holy  flame  :  Nor- 
manby,  Bradford,  and  Wellesley  sent  in  their  quota  of 
cheering  news.  The  centre  and  the  south  felt  the  pulsations 
of  this  spiritual  life,  and  sent  it  throbbing  back  to  the 
extremities ;  Napanee,  Port  Hope  Circuit,  Newcastle,  St. 
George,  and  Lundy's  Lane  sent  tidings  of  victory  and 
triumph. 

345.  Wesley  is  reported  as  having  said,  in  reference  to 
the  boast  of  Archimedes,  "  Give  us  ground  whereon  to 
stand,  and  we  will  move  the  world."  The  early  laborers  in 
this  country  were  not  so  profoundly  convinced  of  the  value 
of  church  edifices  to  the  extension  and  permanency  of  the 
work  of  God  as  they  ought  to  have  been.  But  this  mistake 
had  begun  to  be  corrected  for  a  few  years  before  the  time  of 


HIS    COTBMPORAEIES.  161 

which  we  write.  The  year  1852-53  was  a  great  church- 
building  year,  but  the  one  now  under  consideration  was 
even  more  so.  Churches  large  and  small,  cheap  and  costly, 
churches  in  the  city  and  the  country,  were  projected,  built, 
or  repaired  and  modified,  and  dedicated  every  month  in  the 
year.  A  few  of  these  enterprises  may  now  be  mentioned, 
taking  the  order  in  which  they  were  reported. 

346.  August  the  8th,  1853,  the  Rev.  G.  R.  Sanderson 
gratefully  chronicled  the  opening  of  the  much-needed  new 
church  in  Cobourg,  furnishing  accommodation  at  once  for 

.  students  at  the  College  and  the  congregation  from  the  town 
and  country  around.  The  collection  at  the  dedication — for 
the  place,  in  that  day,  was  unusually  large,  namely,  two 
hundred  dollars.  That  was  the  beginning  of  an  upward 
course  for  Wesleyan  Methodism  in  that  town  and  neighbor- 
hood. 

347.  A  revival  at  La  Chute,  that  old  appointment  in  the 
St.  Andrews  Circuit,  originating  in  a  visit  from  the  Rev. 
Henry  Cox,  a  year  or  so  earlier,  so  strengthened  the  society 
that  they  resolved  to  "  arise  and  build,"  and  a  long,  much- 
needed  church  in  that  village  was  the  result.  The  „church 
at  Peterboro'  was  enlarged  and  re-opened. 

348.  In  November,  1853,  a  new  church,  which  received 
the  name  of  "  Bethel,"  was  opened  in  the  Norwood  Circuit. 
A  similar  event  took  place  on  Christmas  day,  for  the  accom- 
modation of  the  Christianized  Indians  at  Garden  River. 
And  a  church  was  also  finished  and  opened  at  a  place  called 
Percy  Mitts,  in  the  Percy  Circuit. 

349.  A  new  one  at  a  place  called  Tosotoronto,  in  the  Mono 
Mission,  was  reported.  This  field  of  labor,  under  Brethren 
Steer  and  Cooke,  was  wondrously  favoured  this  year  in  all 
respects. 

350.  The  Brighton  Circuit,  under  the  devoted  John  Black 
and  his  active  young  colleague,  J.  W.  German,  had  a  "  deep- 


162  CASE,    AND 

spreading,  messed  work,"  and  a  new  church  at  the  beautiful 
new  Village  of  Frankford,  where  Cold  Creek  comes  tumbling 
down  into  the  Trent,  was  the  result. 

351.  Bro.  William  McCullouch's  circuits  usually  pro- 
gressed, and  this  year  was  no  exception.  A  revival  and  a 
class  at  "  Perrytown  "  on  the  Port  Hope  Circuit  issued  in  a 
church. 

352.  London  built  "  the  largest  and  most  commodious 
church  in  that  town."  And  the  Methodist  miners  at  the 
far-off  Bruce  Mines  rejoiced  in  the  completion  and  glad 
opening  of  a  tabernacle  suitable  to  them,  thirty-five  by 
twenty-five,  under  the  always  successful  labors  of  the  Rev. 
Joseph  Hill. 

353.  And  to  crown  all,  the  growing  town  of  Woodstock 
welcomed  the  completion  of  a  large  and  convenient  church 
about  the  close  of  the  Conference  year — the  14th  and  21st 
of  May — the  opening  celebrated  by  some  of  the  great  lights 
of  the  Connexion  for  two  consecutive  Sabbaths. 

354.  The  miscellaneous  occurrences  and  interests  of  the 
year  may  be  glanced  at  before  we  end  the  account  of  Con- 
nexional  matters  in  Canada  West.  Among  the  first  of  these 
was  the  commencement,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  Con- 
ference, of  what  has  grown  to  be  a  measure  of  great 
importance,  namely,  the  taking  up  of  a  collection  in  the 
several  circuits,  to  assist  in  defraying  the  expenses  of  indi- 
gent Conference  students,  and  thereby  benefitting  the  College 
itself. 

355.  The  Clergy  Reserve  question  was  re-opened  during 
the  course  of  this  year ;  but  the  Conference  and  its  organ, 
referring  to  its  former  recorded  declarations,  chose  not  to 
take  any  very  overt  part  in  the  current  discussion,  on  which 
account  they  were  liberally  censured  by  some  whose  liberal- 
ism was  newly-born.  This  was,  perhaps,  the  cause  of  some 
obstruction  to  the  usefulness  of  Wesleyan  ministers  in  the 


HIS    COTBMPORARIES.  163 

minds  of  a  good  many;  but  the  Editor,  Mr.  Spencer,  ever 
on  the  alert,  continued  to  make  his  trenchant  replies  so 
difficult  to  digest,  that  no  one  long  continued  the  discussion 
with  him.  This  is  a  fitting  place  to  say  that  the  Guardian 
and  its  conductor  were  steadily  growing  in  Connexional 
favor,  and  also  in  the  respect  of  the  country  at  large.  It 
did  good  service  to  the  interests  of  temperance,  and  favored 
strenuously  the  Prohibitory  law  endeavors  which  were  then 
before  the  country. 

•  356.  The  University  of  Victoria  College,  considering  the 
disadvantages  under  which  it  labored,  was  prosecuted  with 
vigor.  The  Rev.  S.  D.  Rice,  during  this  year  as  well  as  the 
last,  besides  his  responsibilities  at  Kingston,  travelled  largely 
to  promote  its  interests,  and  advocated  them  and  cheered  its 
friends  in  his  frequent  communications  to  the  organ  of  the 
Connexion. 

357.  About  the  close  of  the  civil'year  the  venerable  Heman 
Hurlburt,  the  father  of  no  less  than  five  members  of  the 
Conference,  passed  away,  and  his  life  and  character,  com- 
bined with  many  touching  reminiscences  of  the  past,  were 
portrayed  in  a  lengthened  article  by  the  venerable  Case,  a 
most  fitting  biographer  for  such  a  man. 

358.  The  missionary  meeting  efforts  of  this  year  were  too 
many  and  too  extendedly  reported  to  be  conveniently 
abridged.  The  deputations  were  able  and  generally  faithful, 
and  some  of  them,  such  as  Thomas  Hurlburt  and  William 
Herkimer,  who  had  large  experience  in  the  aboriginal  field, 
lent  their  aid  most  efficiently  to  the  anniversaries.  The 
missionary  income  for  the  year  advanced  from  $22,691  87 
to  $30,159  86,  an  increase  of  $7,467  99  on  the  year,  and 
making  the  advance  from  the  time  of  the  reunion  (or,  rather, 
1848)  till  the  Conference  of  1854  no  less  than  $10,899  85. 

359.  The  chronicles  of  the  year,  both  domestic  and  mis- 
sionary, home  and  foreign,  may  well  be  made  to  close  with 


164  CASE,    AND 

a  short  reference  to  an  interesting  valedictory  service  held 
in  Toronto,  May  the  24th,  1854,  at  which  an  affecting  fare-  - 
well  was  taken  of  the  Revs.  Thomas  Hurlburt,  Robert 
Brooking,  and  Allen  Salt,  who  were  designated  to  the  far-off 
Hudson  Bay  Territory,  consequent  upon  the  British  Confer- 
ence missions  of  that  region  being  transferred  to  the  care  of 
the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  in  Canada,  which  had  been 
a  subject  of  negotiation  during  the  preceding  year  or  more. 
The  deferred  visit  of  exploration  on  the  part  of  the  co-Dele- 
gate, the  Rev.  John  Ryerson,  was  now  to  coincide  with  the 
exodus  of  these  outward-bound  missionaries. 

360.  The  numerical  gains  of  this  year  of  activity  were 
not  so  great  as  might  have  been  expected,  but  still  they  were 
very  considerable.  The  total  returns  at  the  Conference  of 
1853  were  30,321.  The  total  at  the  Conference  of  1854 
was  32,364,  making  the  gains  of  the  Conference  year 
1853-54,  two  thousand  and,  forty. 

361.  We  have  now  arrived  at  the  last  year  of  the  exis- 
tence of  the  Canada  East  District  separate  from  the  Upper 
Canada  Conference,  and  happily  we  have  a  little  more  mate- 
rials than  usual  for  illustrating  its  history  and  doings. 

362.  The  Annual  District  Meeting  for  this  section  of  the 
work  sat  earlier  than  usual,  although  the  precise  date  of  its 
session  cannot  now  be  determined.  It  was  one  of  peculiar 
interest  and  solemnity.  It  was  presided  over  by  the  Rev. 
Enoch  Wood,  who  had  been  appointed  its  chairman  by  the 
British  Conference,  third  President  of  the  Canada  Conference, 
on  account  of  the  important  question  pending,  affecting  the 
District  in  its  past  relation  to  the  British  Conference  and  its 
prospective  relation  to  the  Canada  Conference.  Mr.  Wood's 
visit  was  greatly  valued,  as  appears  from  a  resolution  passed 
by  the  brethren  at  the  close,  and  their  presentation  to  him 
of  Bagster's  Bible,  elegantly  bound,  embossed,  and  illus- 
trated. 


HIS   COTEMPOKARIES.  165 

363.  That  having  been  a  Missionary  District,  had  never 
allowed  the  participation  of  laymen  in  any  part  of  its  delib- 
erations, unlike  the  practice  in  England.  But  now,  as  a 
prudential  measure — and,  in  my  opinion,  a  very  wise  and 
just  piece  of  policy — the  Circuit.  Stewards  and  other  official 
friends  were  invited  by  circular  to  attend  from  all  the  cir-  , 
cuits.  Many  of  them  did  attend,  and  on  the  subject  being 
laid  before  them,  they  were  invited  freely  to  express  their 
opinions. 

364.  The  meeting  was  most  harmonious  and  interesting 
throughout,  and  the  question  of  amalgamation  with  the 
Canada  Conference  secured  a  unanimous  vote. 

365.  Unhappily  two  of  the  brethren  had  become  so  enfee- 
bled by  affliction  as  to  have  to  sue  for  a  supernumerary 
relation.  These  were  Brethren  Ingalls  and  John  Douglass. 
The  former  returned  to  the  work  after  some  years'  rest ;  but 
the  latter,  although  useful  to  the  Church  in  every  place 
where  he  afterward  resided,  never  returned  to  the  itinerant 
field — at  least  in  Canada. 

366.  The  deputation  already  mentioned,  consisting  of  the 
Rev.  Messrs.  Jenkins,  Borland,  and  Brock,  was  appointed 
to  convey  the  decision  and  wishes  of  the  District  Meeting 
to  the  Canada  Conference. 

367.  The  stations,  supplemented  as  they  were  with  the 
loan  of  "two  brethren  from  the  Canada  Conference,  were  as 
follows : — 

Montreal  Centre — John  Jenkins;  John  Douglas,  supernu- 
merary. 
Montreal  West— William  Scott. 
Montreal  Hast — George  Douglas. 
Quebec— John  Borland. 
Point  Levi — One  wanted. 
Three  Rivers— Charles  De  Wolfe,  A.M. 
Ratodon  and  Wesleyville— (Erastus  Hurlburt). 


166  CASE,    AND 

St.  John  and  Chamhly  -  John  C.  Davidson. 

Odelltown  and  Hemmingford — James  Brock,   one  to  be 
sent. 

Huntingdon — George  H.  Davis. 

Russeltown — Thomas  Campbell. 

Clarencevitte — Henry  Lanton. 

St.  Armand — Gifford  Dorey. 

Durham — Hugh  Montgomery,  one  to  be  sent ;  E.  S.  Ingalls, 
supernumerary. 

Brome,  Sutton,  dec. — One  to  be  sent. 

Shefford  and  Granby — Rufus  A.  Flanders,  one  to  be  sent. 

Stanstead. — John  Tompkins. 

Gompton — ( William  Andrews.) 

Bornston — One  wanted. 

Sherbrooke  and  Eaton — Benjamin  Slight,  one  to  be  sent. 

Dudswell — One  wanted. 

Melbourne — Malcolm  McDonald. 

Danville. — One  wanted. 

Leeds — John  Armstrong. 

Gaspe — One  wanted. 

368.  The  above  stations  require  some  annotations.  First, 
the  brethren  whose  names  are  within  in  a  parenthesis  were 
members  of  the  Canada  Conference,  Secondly,  the  Eev. 
G-.  N".  F.  T.  Dickson's  name  was  in  the  first  published  draft 
of  stations  set  down  for  Bawdon,  but  ultimately  he  was  ex- 
changed for  the  Rev.  E.  Hurlburt,  while  he  himself  was  sent 
as  junior  preacher  to  Kingston.  Falling  into  the  Canada 
Conference  by  the  arrangement  of  the  next  year,  this  excel- 
lent minister  of  Christ  has  never  removed  from  the  Upper 
Province  from  that  day  to  this.  Third,  we  have  reason  to 
believe  that  the  "  one  to  be  sent  "  to  the  aid  of  Mr.  Brock 
at  Odell  Town  was  a  younger  brother  of  Mr.  Dickson,  who 
never  formally  entered  the  itinerancy,  but  who  ultimately - 
became  a  physician.     Fourth,  the  assistant  of  Mr.   Slight  at 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  167 

Eaton  was  the  Brother  Robert  Graham,  whose  peculiar  case 
has  been  described,  and  who  was  ultimately  incorporated  in 
the  Canada  Conference.  Fifth,  who  assisted  Mr.  Mont- 
gomery at  Durham;  and  who  supplied  Brome  and  Sutton, 
Dudswell,  Danville,  and  Gaspe,  if  any,  it  is  impossible  to 
say] 

369.  We  must  now  endeavor  to  catch  some  glimpses  of 
their  labors  and  success,  and,  it  may  be,  their  joys  and  sor- 
rows, through  the  year  1853-54. 

370.  The  next  glimpse  of  Canada  Eastern  interests  is 
found  in  an  editorial  of  the  Guardian  for  October  19th, 
1853,  headed  "  Canada  East  Methodism  to  be  one  with 
Canada  West,"  containing  the  following  passage  from  the 
Annual  Address  of  the  British  Conference  to  its  Canadian 
confrere,  to  be  read  at  the  ensuing  session  of  the  Canada 
ecclesiasitical  assembly.  It  is  as  follows  : — "  We  have  heard 
with  great  satisfaction  of  the  desire  which  exists  on  the  part 
of  the  ministers  and  members  of  the  churches  in  the  Eastern 
Canada  District  to  be  incorporated  with  the  Western 
Canada  Conference.  We  believe  that  the  consummation 
of  this  purpose  will  greatly  increase  the  stability  and  use- 
fulness of  Wesleyan  Methodism  in  your  country.  We 
cordially  approve  of  the  steps  you  have  already  taken  with 
reference  to  the  matter ;  and  we  have  great  pleasure  in  assur- 
ing you  that  all  suitable  means  will  be  employed  by  us  to 
complete  this  most  desirable  arrangement  as  speedily  as 
possible." 

371.  In  Quebec,  in  the  early  part  of  the  winter  of  1853-54, 
revival  services  were  conducted  for  the  space  of  fourteen 
weeks,  sustained  by  that  eminent  revivalist,  Bev.  James 
Caoghey.  They  were  remarkably  owned  to  the  conviction 
and  conversion  of  sinners  both  in  and  out  of  the  church ; 
two  hundred  and  twenty-two  were  added  from  the  world. 
The  number    reported    pardoned   was  three    hundred  and 


168  CASE,    AND 

eleven,  fifty-fbur  of  these,  with  seventy-one  old  members  of 
the  church — one  hundred  and  twenty-five  in  all, — professed  to 
receive  the  blessing  of  entire  sanctification.  The  cases  of 
special  good  were  in  all  no  less  than  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
four.  The  new  converts  were  solemnly  confirmed,  and  the 
series  of  meetings  closed  with  a  serious,  loving,  social 
tea-meeting.  The  above  particulars  were  furnished  to  the 
Guardian  by  an  excellent  lay  friend,  Thomas  Vaux,  Esq., 
whose  acquaintance  the  reader  has  already  made. 

372.  There  was  evidently  a  greatly-renewed  current  of  life- 
blood  coursing  through  the  district  during  this  last  year  of 
its  first  ecclesiastical  relationship.  We  do  not  arrive  in  the 
usual  way  at  a  conclusion  relative  to  the  numbers  in  Canada 
East  for  the  year  1853-54,  because  the  numbers  on  the 
several  circuits  are  not  given,  nor  even  the  totals,  in  the 
British  Minutes  for  1854,  as  had  been  usual,  as  the  Parent 
Conference  regarded  them  as  already  transferred  to  Canada 
West,  but  we  find,  from  other  sources  of  information,  that 
their  increase  for  the  year  1853-54  was  the  very  considerable 
gain  of  two  hundred  and  nineteen.  This  placed  the  member- 
ship of  the  two  sections  of  Wesleyan  Methodism  in  the  two 
Canadian  Provinces,  on  the  eve  of  their  consolidation  at  the 
Conference  of  1854,  at  about  36,333. 


169 


book:  thirteenth. 


CASE  AND  HIS  COTEMPOR ARIES  AMALGAMATED  INTO  ONE  HOMO- 
GENEOUS   WHOLE. 


1854-55. 

1.  We  are  entering  now  on  a  new  and  final  epoch  in  our 
biographical  history.  Although  short,  it  is  important,  and 
requires  to  stand  out  by  itself,  as  the  beginning  of  long  years 
of  harmony  and  prosperity. 

2.  The  epochal  Conference  of  1854  sat  in  the  strongly 
Methodist  Town  of  Belleville,  on  the  7th  of  June,  and  con- 
tinued its  sessions  until  the  fifteenth.  There  was  an  unusu- 
ally large  attendance  of  no  less  than  133  ministers  of  the  Con- 
ference, besides  juniors  who  had  no  legal  seat  or  voice  in  the 
assembly.  The  brethren,  John  Borland,  James  Brock,  and 
Malcolm  McDonald,  came  as  a  deputation  from  the  Eastern 
Province,  and  were  accompanied  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Camp- 
bell. 

3.  The  Rev.  Enoch  Wood  was  announced  as  the  appointee 
of  the  British  Conference  for  President ;  and  although  not 
present,  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson  as  his  co-Delegate.  The 
urbane  and  amiable  Isaac  Brock  Howard,  after  fourteen 
years  of  faithful  ministrations,  and  many  years'  experience 
an  Journal  Secretary,  was  honored  by  the  consecration  of  his 
elegant  penmanship  to  the  office  of  principal  Secretary.  He 
chose  Brethren  Tupper  and  Gemley  as  his  assistants. 

8 


176  oaSe,  and 

4.  The  other  Connexional  offices  were  filled  by  nearly  the 
same  persons  as  the  year  before.  The  Rev.  James  Spencer 
was  continued  in  the  editorial  office  ;  but  the  Rev.  Anson 
Green,  D.D.,  after  nine  years'  incumbenc}',  during  which  the 
institution  greatly  advanced,  was  relieved  of  the  responsibili- 
ties of  the  Book-stewardship,  and  the  Rev.  G-.  R.  Sanderson, 
was  once  more  brought  back  to  the  "  Book  and  Printing  Es- 
tablishment" by  being  elected  in  the  Doctor's  place.  The 
Rev.  Lachlin  Taylor's  name  stood  still  in  connection  with 
Toronto  First  Circuit,  as  the  permitted  Agent  of  the  Upper 
Canada  Bible  Society ;  and  the  Rev.  Thomas  Demorest  con- 
tinued the  Agent  for  Connexional  funds. 

5.  The  absence  of  one  distinguished  name  from  this  central 
position  (as  it  happily  turned  out,  however,  for  one  year),  as 
it  was  connected  with  an  important  question  of  Church 
polity,  cannot  be  ignored ;  and  may  afford  occasion  for  pre- 
senting some  of  those  lessons  which  history  teaches. 

6.  The  leading  minister  referred  to,  who  had  privately 
mooted  the  question  some  years  before,  in  view  of  the  many 
excellent  persons  who  sit  in  the  Methodist  churches  and  par- 
take of  the  sacred  symbols  at  our  communion  rails,  but  who 
are  not  recognised  and  utilized  as  members,  because  "they 
shrink  from  meeting  in  class;  and  in  view  of  the  fact  of  an- 
other large  class  of  persons,  nominal  members,  apparently  re- 
ligiously habited  in  other  respects,  whose  attendance  at  class 
is  reluctant,  and  maintained  very  fitfully,  barely  to  retain 
their  membership,  believing  that  it  would  be  wise  and  proper 
to  abolish  the  class-meeting  condition  of  membership,  gave  no- 
tice of,  and  moved  a  resolution  to  that  effect.  His  principal 
argument  was  that  the  test  was  only  adapted  to  the  mere 
society  stage  of  Methodistic  organization,  but  that,  as  it  had 
now  developed  itself  into  a  Church,  it  was  wrong  to  make 
church-membership  dependent  on  the  use  of  a  prudential 
means  of  religious  edification.    There  were  a  few  sympathizers 


SIS  COTEMeORABIES.  171 

with  the  measure  proposed  who  approved  of  the  argu- 
ments by  which  it  was  sought  to  be  carried,  but  it  is  not  un- 
charitable to  say,  that  they  were  such  brethren  as,  however 
excellent,  are  averse  to  the  strict  details  of  disciplinary  ad- 
ministration. But  the  great  majority  of  the  ministers  were 
st ron "lv,  and  some  of  them  vehemently  opposed  to  the  inno- 
vation. This  will  especially  apply  to  Brethren  R.  Jones, 
Wilkinson,  Carroll,  and  W.  Jeffers,  who  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  debate,  with  some  others  whose  names  elude  our 
recollection.  These  brethren  maintained,  that  though  the 
name  of  the  institution,  like  many  other  essentials  of  our 
Church  organization,  does  not  appear  in  the  New  Testament, 
the  substance  of  its  doings  are  strongly  enjoined  therein  ; 
that  it  is  essential  to  the  maintenance  of  the  vital  integrity 
of  Methodism;  that  the  enforcement  of  the  class-meeting 
rule  did  no  one  any  injustice,  inasmuch  as  our  Church  or- 
ganization was  perfectly  voluntary,  and  everyone  had  the 
means  of  knowing  that  his  membership  could  not  be  begun 
or  continued  without  an  attendance  at  class  ;  and  that  as  to. 
fastidious  ones,  they  had,  by  the  provisions  and  usages  of  the 
body,  the  privilege  of  access  to  the  Lord's  table  and  that  of 
having  their  children  dedicated  to  God  in  holy  baptism. 
These  considerations  prevailed,  and  the  overture  was  rejected 
by  a  vast  majority,  and  there  has  been  no  formal  attempt  to 
unsettle  the  Church  on  that  point  to  this  day.  The  author 
of  the  overture  felt  so  strongly  on  the  subject,  that  he  ten- 
dered his  ministerial  standing,  and  it  was  accepted.  It  is 
however,  but  just  to  him  to  say,  that  he  was  not  opposed  to 
class-meeting  itself,  but  to  the  use  of  it  as  a  test  of  adherence 
to  the  Church.  For  one  year  he  dropped  quietly  into  the 
local  ranks, — preached  as  occasion  required,  and  united  with 
n  class  and  met  regularly  therein.  And  the  present  writer 
feels  great  pleasure  in  the  recollection  that  he  had  the  honor 
of  proposing  at  the  next  annual  session  of  the  Conference  an- 


if 2  CASE,  Aiir>  . 

invitation  to  the  brother  concerned  to  resume  his  connection 
with  the  Conference,  which  carried,  and  the  recalcitrant 
member  returned. 

7.  But  it  may,  perhaps,  be  averred  by  some,  that  what  was 
sought  to  be  accomplished  by  direct  enactment  has  come 
about  by  the  slow  process  of  events,  and  that  in  many  cir- 
cuits the  class-meeting  condition  is  a  practical  nullity,  and  it 
must  be  confessed  that  through  the  habitual  disposition  of 
some  members  to  oppose  and  resist  what  they  are  bound  to 
uphold,  and  the  still  more  deplorable  tendency  of  some  min- 
isters to  ignore  and  neglect  the  details  of  a  Discipline  they 
are  pledged  to  enforce,  that  there  is  too  much  truth  in  the 
above  averment,  but  it  is  none  the  less  a  pity  and  a  shame 
that  it  is  so  for  all  that.  And  this  is  a  good  opportunity  for 
saying,  that  a  little  tact  and  painstaking  on  the  part  of 
leaders  and  preachers  would  correct  this  neglect,  and  render 
the  class-meeting  at  once  popular  and  an  untold  blessing  to 
the  Church.  Let  the  minister  make  much  of  the  class-meet- 
ing, after  announcing  and  commending  it,  and  after  throwing' 
himself  into  them  and  giving  the  leaders  an  example  of 
strictness,  variety,  and  life  in  their  management ;  and,  at 
least,  always  doing  this  once  a  quarter,  examining  the 
class-book  and  giving  the  ticket  into  each  member's  hand, 
instead  of  merely  handing  them  to  the  leader.  So  also,  if 
the  leader  would  forecast  his  work,  seek  a  preparation  ot 
mind  and  heart -for  its  edifying  and  lively  performance, 
eschewing  stiffness  and  hackneyed  ways,  and  striving  to  show 
some  genius  and  generalship,  as  well  as  piety,  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  meetings  from  time  to  time,  and  particularly, 
always  producing  and  marking  his  class-book  in  the  presence 
of  his  class,  to  show  that  the  attendance  of  members  was  a 
matter  expected,  and  that  its  neglect  was  recorded  ;  I  say  if 
these  things  were  done,  and  the  members  co-operated,  more 
would  be  accomplished  twice  over  in  securing  permanent 


HIS  COTEMPORAKIES.  173 

members,  and  in  upbuilding  the  Church  in  order  and  holi- 
ness, than  by  those  spasmodic  efforts  by  which  is  sought  to 
stave  off  and  remedy  the  deterioration  occasioned  by  our 
ordinary  and  ruinous  neglect. 

8.  The  proposals  of  the  Canada  East  brethren  for  amalga- 
mation with  the  Canada  Conference,  backed  as  it  was  by  the 
hearty  concurrence  of  the  British  Conference,  was  unani- 
mously accepted ;  and  skilful  financial  minds  were  set  to 
work  to  devise  the  terms  on  which  the  incoming  brethren 
might  be  invested  with  equal  financial  claims  on  the  funds 
of  the  Conference  with  the  original  members,  which  terms, 
when  agreed  on,  the  Parent  Connexion  enabled  them  to  fulfil. 
The  details  of  this  measure  must  be  sought  for  elsewhere. 

9.  The  effort  to  endow  the  College  by  the  sale  of  scholar- 
ships during  the  course  of  the  previous  year  had  been  to  a 
considerable  extent  successful.  Four  hundred  scholarships 
had  been  sold,  and  it  was  thought  that  the  number  might  be 
increased  to  seven  hundred,  which,  at  $100  each,  would  yield 
an  endowment  of  $70,000,  the  interest  on  which  was  a  much- 
needed  supplement  to  the  other  moderate  resources  of  the  in- 
stitution. To  complete  the  canvass,  seven  ministers,  in  as 
many  different  parts  of  the  Connexiorl,  were  appointed  to 
issue  scholarships  to  applicants. 

10.  No  less  than  sixteen  brethren  were  received  into  full 
connexion  with  the  Conference,  and  all"  but  two,  who  had 
been  previously  ordained  for  special  purposes,  were  solemnly 
set  apart  by  imposition  of  hands.  Their  "  public  reception," 
at  which  six,  selected  from  among  the  number,  gave  an  ac- 
count of  their  conversion  and  call  to  the  ministry  as  a 
sample  of  what  was  required  in  the  Wesleyan  ministry,  and 
three  of  the  ablest  ministers  of  the  body,  namely  :  the  vener- 
able Mr.  Case,  Dr.  Green,  and  Rev.  John  Borland,  of  the 
delegation,  addressed  the  assembly  in  an  efficient  manner. 


174  CASE,    AND 

11.  The  brethren  received  were  Nelson  Brown,  Wm.  Burns, 
Joel  Briggs,  Wm.  Creigkton,  Thomas  Gulbert,  John  Wesley 
German,  Robert  Graham,  John  Hutchinson,  Richard  M.  Ham- 
mond, Silas  Huntingdon,  Joseph  Hugil,  George  McRitchie, 
George  McBougall,  Thomas  Stobbs,  Matthew  Swamn,  and 
Richard  Wilson.  They  had  all  graduated  with  the  Canada 
Conference  in  the  usual  way,  excepting  Messrs.  Hutchinson 
and  Graham,  who  had  come  from  lesser  Methodist  bodies 
through  the  Eastern  Canada  District. 

12.  The  number  beginning  their  probation  for  the  ministry 
was  still  greater.  These  were  :  John  S.  Clarke,  Robert  Fow- 
ler, John  Wakefield,  William  Williams,  John  L.  Kerr,  Luther 
Houghton,  David  Hunt,  George  Blaker,  Ashton  Fletcher,  John 
Fawcett,  William  Bryers,  William  Scales,  Joseph  E.  Sanderson, 
William  Tomblin,  Peter  German,  George  Cochran,  Lucius 
Adams,  S.  G.  Phillips,  George  Jaques,  George  L.  Richardson, 
Garrett  J.  Dingman,  Jay  S.  Youmans,  William  Briden,  and 
Andrew  Armstrong. 

13.  Eight  of  these  brethren  are  marked  in  the  Minutes 
as  having  travelled  one  year  under  the  direction  of  a  chair- 
man, some'of  whom  we  have  mentioned,  though  there  were 
one  or  two  of  whose  labors  and  place  of  labor  we  were  not 
informed.  But  several  who  assuredly  labored  under  a 
chairman,  and  whom  we  have  so  presented,  have  no  credit 
given  them  in  the  Minutes.  Among  these  are  William  Wil- 
liams, John  L.  Kerr,  David  Hunt,  William^  Bryers,  Lucius 
Adams,  Garrett  J.  Dingman,  Andrew  Armstrong,  George 
Cochran,  and  George  Blaker;  and  we  are  morally  certain  that 
one  or  two  others  ought  to  be  placed  in  the  same  category. 

14.  We  must  now  give  a  presentation  to  the  reader  of 
such  of  these  new  laborers  in  the  field  as  we  have  not 
already  noticed ;  albeit,  for  lack  of  authentic  information,  in 
some  instances  we  fear  that  we  cannot  go  much  beyond 
probable  conjectures. 


HIS   COTEMPORAEIES.  175 

15.  Ashton  Fletcher  appears  in  the  list.  There  were  two 
of  this  name — father  and  son.  The  son,  I  believe,  is  here 
intended.  The  father  will  come  to  view  after  the  lapse  of  a 
year.  The  son  was  a  very  young  man — not,  probably,  above 
nineteen  or  twenty,  if  up  to  that ;  nevertheless,  if  I  am  not 
greatly  mistaken,  he  had  labored  the  whole  or  a  part  of  the 
preceding  year  on  a  circuit  under  a  chairman — perhaps  the 
circuit  to  which  he  was  about  to  be  appointed  for  1854-55, 
the  Nelson.  He  was  the  son  of  a  good  local  preacher,  who 
was  destined  to  offer  the  evening  of  his  days  for  usefulness; 
like  his  father,  he  was  a  native  of  England,  and  by  all  who 
witnessed  his  juvenile  efforts,  pronounced  exceedingly  gifted 
and  promising  as  a  speaker.  But  he  was  destined  to  labor 
only  during  this  year  on  a  circuit.  The  next  two  years, 
being  still  very  young,  he  attended  Victoria  College  as  a 
Conference  student,  at  which  institution,  I  believe,  x  he 
graduated.  But  while  passing  through  College,  his  views 
became  altered  about  his  vocation  for  life,  giving  up  the 
study  of  theology  for  the  study  of  law,  in  which  profession 
he  is  reported  very  successful,  while  still  connected  with  the 
Church  of  his  childhood  and  his  choice.  Seeing  "  he  went 
not  with  us  to  the  work,"  we  can  afford  him  no  larger  niche 
in  the  temple  of  fame. 

16.  Jay  S.  Towmans,  a  brother  beloved,  appears  for  the 
first  time  as  a  preacher  in  this  list.  Although  he  now 
Bojourns  in  another  land,  to  which  we  cannot  say  we  cheer- 
fully transferred  him,  yet  he  left  the  writer  data  for  furnish- 
ing the  reader  an  account  of  his  early  physical  and  spiritual 
life.  He  was  of  a  good  and  godly  stock,  born  in  Prince 
Edward  County  in  1832  ;  converted  clearly  in  1843,  when 
only  eleven  years  of  age.  The  Rev.  R.  Jones  and  the  Rev. 
Mr.  La  Dow  were  the  instruments.  Soon  after,  receiving 
the  blessing  of  perfect  love,  he  lived  a  beautifully  devoted 
life  from  bovhood  upwards.     H^e  had  fair  opportunities  for 


176  CASE,    AND 

liberal  training,  although  not  a  graduate.  He  had  also  a 
capable,  active  mind,  and  made  good  improvement  of  his 
opportunities..  But  the  principal  thing  in  his  favor  was  the 
possession^  the  qualities  sthat  give  a  man  success  injthe 
ministry,  namely,  ardent  piety  ,'an  emotionaljiature,  sympa- 
thy and  fervor sof  spirit/great  ease  andTolubility  in  speaking, 
a  manageable,  musical  voice,  and  an  easy,  popular,  though 
not  exactly  colloquial  style.  His  personal  appearance,  also, 
was  in  his  favor — sizable  "as  ,to  stature  and  dimensions,  a 
thorough  blonde  as  to  hair  and  transparency  of  skin.  His 
character  was  ^indicated  by^a]  prominent  nose,  [and  vocal 
capacity  by  a  widejnouth.  He  early  began  to  exhort  and 
preach,  and  was  only  about  twenty-one  when  proposed  for 
the  ministry.  No  wonder  that  a  laborer  constituted  like 
the  one  I  have  described  should  have  proved  gloriously  suc- 
cessful in  winning  souls.  He  has  won  a  good  position  of 
usefulness  in  the  Erie  Conference,  whither  he  has  gone,  and 
also  a  Doctor's  degree. 

17.  John  S.  Clarke  has'not  yet  furnished  me  with  specific 
data.  I  must  therefore  present  him,  as  best  I  can,  in  a 
general  way,  leaving  ajspace  for  the  particulars,  to  be  used 
if  they  arrive  before  I  go  to  press.  He  was  Irish  we  know, 
and  stayed  long  enough  in  Ireland  to  give  his  accent  a  good 
broad  sound.  His  voice  was  loud  and  rolling;  his  person 
good  and  commanding,  and  his  temper  generous,  and  his 
manners  genial.  Like  Richard  Clarke,  William  McDonagh, 
George  H.  Cornish,  and  AlexanderJDrennan,  he  came  out  of 
that  prolific  hive,  the  Richmond  Street  Society,  Toronto. 
Bro.  Clarke's  youth  gave  promise  to  the  ministry  of  the 
ability,  activity,  and  success  by  which  his  public  life  has 
been  characterized. 

x18.  John  Wakefield  is  one  of  those  whom  I  surmised  to 
have  labored  the  preceding  year  under  a  chairman,  and  now 
I  see  from  his  General  Conference  sketch  that  he  went  out 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  177 

in  1852 ;  and  Cornish's  Hand-Book  informs  us  the  year  was 
spent  between  the  Blenheim  and  Stratford  Circuits.  Had 
we  not  overlooked  this,  he  would  have  been  noticed  before. 
The  next  year,  1853-54,  he  was  at  Cobourg  as  a  Conference 
student.  This  year  he  comes,  Minerva-like,  fully  armed  for 
the  itinerant  battle.  He  was  born  in  Warwickshire,  Old 
England,  in  1830,  so  that  on  this  occasion  of  his  introduc- 
tion to  us  he  was  the  stout,  compact  young  man  of  twenty- 
four  years  of  age.  He  had  a  good  physique,  good  resonant 
voice,  great  readiness  of  utterance,  and  immense  hortatory 
power.  He  was  converted  at  his  starting-place  in  the  min- 
istry, Blenheim,  and  favored  with  advantages  of  education 
better  than  many  others. 

19.  William  Scales  was  a  native  of  John  Wesley's  town 
and  county,  Epworth,  in  Lincolnshire,  England.  He  had 
been  a  very  laborious  local  preacher  in  his  own  country, 
where  he  had  conducted  a  business.  But  coming  to  Mon- 
treal a  matured  man,  he  was  called  out  for  a  time,  I  am 
almost  certain,  under  a  chairman,  and  recommended  to  this 
Conference  for  the  ministry.  He  was  well  stored  with 
Scriptural  and  theological  furniture  as  a  thoroughly  instruc- 
tive and  impressive  preacher.  Mr.  Scales  was  somewhat  tall 
and  slender,  but  wiry. 

20.  Peter  German  was  a  married  man,  had  been  very 
oomfortable  and  respectable  in  private  life,  and  invested 
with  a  commission  of  the  peace.  His  residence  had  been 
within  the  St.  George  Circuit,  where  he  had  very  acceptably 
exercised  his  talents  as  a  local  preacher  for  several  years. 
Indeed,  his  marked  usefulness  as  a  lay  preacher  in  the 
country  around  suggested  the  idea  of  urging  him  out  into 
the  itinerant  field,  in  which  he  had  labored  the  preceding 
year,  under  a  chairman,  on  the  Dumfries  or  St.  George 
CHreuifc.  We  are  glad,  since  the  above  was  written,  to  have 
the  following  more  precise  particulars  cv.me  to  hand  :— He 

8* 


178  CASE,    AND 

was  born  'at  the  "  Fifty,"  in  1818  ;  converted  at  a  camp- 
meeting  in  1833;  received  license  to  exhort  in  1835,  and 
became  a  local  preacher  in  1839. 

21.  William  Braden  (who  must  not  be  confounded  with 
William  Briden — the  latter  was  English)  was  an  Irish- 
Canadian,  if  not  born  in  Ireland,  the  son  of  thoroughly 
Irish  Wesleyan  parents,  as  thoroughly  Cana'dianized.  He 
was  well-sized  and  proportioned,  well-educated,  and  a  most 
amiable  young  man,  but  seems  to  have  had  an  aversion  to 
public  ministrations,  and  was  destined  to  remain  only  a  few 
years  in  the  ministry,  while  his  whole  life  was  to  be  given 
to  the  Church.  He  came  out  from  Pembroke,  and  settled 
at  Carleton  Place. 

22.  Samuel  G.  Phillips  was  a  native  of  England  also,  not 
very  large  of  stature,  active- minded,  and,  we  suspect,  largely 
self-educated — an  education  which  has  been  going  on  ever 
since.  He  came  from  the  Lower  Canada  section  of  the  work, 
where  he  had  labored  at  least  one  year  as  a  supply.  When 
a  Wesleyan  standard-bearer  went  over,  to  another  section  of 
the  militant  Church — the  year  preceding,  at  St.  Johns — Bro. 
Phillips  had  been  called  to  supply  the  vacancy,  and  did  it 
courageously.  This  young  man  was  destined  to  get  up  his 
Conference  studies  well,  to  advance  his  circuits,  to  preach 
good  sermons,  and  to  write  and  publish  saleable  and  useful 
books. 

23.  George  L.  Richardson  was  also  English ;  but,  unlike 
the  last,  he  was  large  in  person  and  was  married.  We  have 
never  had  the  pleasure  of  hearing  him,  but  imagine  he  was 
a  fair  average  preacher  and  an  agreeable  pastor. 

24.  George  Jaques  was  English  also,  but  young,  and  pos- 
sessed of  physical  qualities  destined  to  be  called  into  requisi- 
tion in  the  hard  back  circuits  he  was  fated  to  labor  on  and 
work  up.  The  brother  had  always  a  bright,  intelligent  look, 
and  appeared  well-informed  in  conversation,  but  the  distance 


HIS  CONTEMPORARIES. 


179 


we  have  been  apart  has  prevented  me  from  forming  a  proper 
appreciation  of  his  preaching  abilities.  To  all  appearance, 
he  has  proved  himself  an  uncomplaining,  enduring  laborer. 

25.  These  young  brethren  were  needed  to  fill  some  vacan- 
cies created  by  withdrawals  and  by  deaths.  Two  had  with- 
drawn in  Canada  East  during  the  preceding  year.  These 
were  the  Revs.  John  G.  Davidson  and  Hugh  Montgomery. 
They  were  both  Irishmen  by  birth  and  education.  Both 
were  educated  above  the  average  of  their  day ;  both  had 
taught  school ;  both  had  been  brought  up  into  the  ministry 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Canada  Conference,  and  both  had 
retired  from  that  Conference  in  favor  of  the  British  Confer- 
ence during  the  early  part  of  the  seven  years'  rivalry  in 
Canada  West.  They  differed  somewhat  in  age,  size,  and 
ability.  Mr.  Davidson  was  the  senior;  and  had  the  advan- 
tage in  the  other  two  particulars.  But  in  several,  things 
they  were  alike  :  they  were  both  rather  more  than  usually 
urbane  and  courteous,  but  both  had  that  sort  of  parsonic, 
perfunctory  manner  and  taste  which,  I  think,  always  gave 
them  a  predilection  for  liturgical,  not  to  say  ritualistic, 
services.  These  things,  with  the  possible  expectation  that 
their  circumstances  would  be  less  comfortable  under  a  Cana- 
dian Conference  regime  (in  which,  however,  they  were 
greatly  mistaken),  induced  them  to  go  over  to  the  Episco- 
palian or  Anglican  Church. 

26.  It  is  more  pleasing  to  turn  to  those  who  had  "finished 
their  course  with  joy,  and  the  ministry  which  they  had 
received  of  the  Lord."     Of  these  there  were  two. 

27.  The  first  was  simple-minded,  honest-hearted,  affec-, 
donate  George  Poole.  Although  his  life  and  labors  for  near 
thirty  years  have  been  before  the  reader,  yet  we  will  honor 
him  by  reproducing  his  short  Conference  obituary : — 
"  George  Poole  was  born  in  Gory,  County  of  Wexford, 
Ireland.    He  died  in  Brantford,  September  11th,  1853,  in 


180  CASE,   AN* 

the  fifty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  Bro.  Poole  was  converted 
to  God  and  became  a  member  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Church  at  eighteen  years  of^age.  In  1827  he  was  admitted 
a  candidate  for  the  holy  ministry.  Full  of  faith  and  zeal, 
he  declined  no  labor  and  recoiled  from  no  self-denial  by 
which  he  might  promote  the  cause  of  God  and  fulfil  the 
mission  assigned  him  in  the  Church  of  God.  He  deemed  it 
his  highest  happiness  to  be  in  '  labors  more  abundant,'  inso- 
much that  when  the  Providence  of  God,  by  most  painful 
affliction,  laid  him  aside  from  the  effective  ministry,  he  was 
often  heard  to  exclaim,  '  That  word  superannuated  presses 
like  a  leaden  weight  upon  my  heart ;  I  cannot  endure  to 
think  of  it.'  During  the  last  seven  years  before  his  death 
his  life  was  a  scene  of  extreme  and  almost  uninterrupted 
suffering.  But  amidst  all  he  was  eminently  supported  by 
the  power  of  grace.  His  latest  hours  were  especially  char- 
acterized by  calm  respose  and  holy  joy  in  the  God  of  his 
salvation.  In  life  men  beheld  in  him  a  true  and  constant,, 
friend,  an  earnest  and  deeply-fervent  Christian,  and  a  faithful,, 
and  useful  minister.  In  death  they  saw  him  borne  up  as 
by  the  vision  of  God,  in  expectation  of  the  '  crown  of  life ' 
and  a  home  in  heaven." 

28.  The  Rev.  James  Booth  was  the  other.  He  also  has 
been  so  long  before  the  reader,  that  all  that  will  be  required 
will  be  to  reproduce  the  very  short  obituary  of  him  which 
appeared  in  the  British  Minutes  for  the  year  of  which  we 
write,  he  having  always  held  relations  to  the  English  Con- 
ference : — "  James  Booth,  who  entered  upon  the  mission 
work  in  the  year  1816,  and  prosecuted  it  diligently  and 
faithfully,  until  growing  infirmities  compelled  him  to  retire 
from  active  service.  In  a  letter  to  the  Missionary  Com- 
mittee, written  a  short  time  before  his  decease,  he  expresses 
himself  thus  :  '  I  now  only  live  a  day  at  once ;  and  I  am 
striving,  with  all  my  powers,  to  be  ready  when  the  Lord 


HIS  COTEMPORARIES.  181 

shall  call  me.  Thank  the  Lord,  my  soul  is  happy  in  a  sense 
of  my  acceptance  with  God,  and  a  lively  hope  of  a  safe 
arrival  at  my  heavenly  home.  Bless  the  Lord,  O  my  soul, 
for  all  His  mercies  to  me  !  Truly  the  Lord  is  my  God,  and 
I  will  praise  Him.'  He  died  at  Kingston,  Canada,  January 
22nd,  1854,  in  the  seventy-third  year  of  his  age." 

29.  The  Clergy  Reserve  question  came  before  the  Confer- 
ence, but  it  was  disposed  of,  in  a  quiet  way,  by  the  passage 
of  a  resolution  setting  forth  the  reasons  for  which  the  Con- 
ference declined  taking  any  further  action  on  that  subject. 

30.  By  the  list  of  stations — which  we  shall  transcribe  by 
districts,  seeing  it  is  the  beginning  of  an  epoch — it  will  be 
discovered  that  no  less  than  two  hundred  and  thirty-eight 
preachers  were  stationed.  Yet,  by  the  same  means,  it  will 
be  discovered  that  between  thirty  and  forty  were  needed. 
How' this  need  was  supplied,  it  will  be  also  our  duty  to  try 
and  ascertain. 

31.  In  pursuance  of  the  plan  of  which  I  have  given  inti- 
mation, and  for  which  I  have  assigned  the  reasons,  of  giving 
the  "  stations  "  for  this  epochal  year  by  districts,  with  any 
annotations  which  they  may  require,  I  herewith  furnish  the 
first  instalment,  relating,  as  it  does,  to  the  main  central 
district  of  the  Connexion — the  Toronto  District : — 

Enoch  Wood,  President  of  Conference  and  General 
Superintendent  of  Missions. 

Toronto  East  —John  Gemley,  John  Bredin;  Anson  Green, 
D.D.,  who  is  our  Representative  to  the  English 
Conference  ;  Geo.  R.  Sanderson,  Book-Steward ; 
James  Spencer,  Editor ;  Lachlin  Taylor,  Agent 
of  the  Upper  Canada  Bible  Society,  by  permis- 
sion of  the  Conference ;  Thos.  Demorest,  Agent 
for  Connexional  Funds,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Book  Committee. 


182  CASE,    AND  y 

Toronto  West — John  Borland,  Ephraim  B.  Harper,  Chas, 

Lavell. 
Yonge  Street — Richard  Jones,  William  S.  Blackstock. 
Humher — Robert  Lochead,  Benjamin  Jones. 
Brampton — Samuel  C.  Philp,  Reuben  E.  Tupper,  Joseph 

E.  Sanderson. 

N.  B. — Bro.  Philp's  address  is  Streetsville. 
Coohsville — Benjamin  Nankevill ;  Jonathan  Scott,  super- 
annuated. 
Oshawa — David  B.  Madden,  Robert  Fowler  \  Peter  Ker, 

superannuated. 
Markham — John  Law,  Henry  Jones  ;  David  Youm  ans 

superannuated. 
Nelson — -Thomas    Campbell,    Ashton    Fletcher;     David 
Wright,  superannuated. 
N.  B. — Bro.  Campbell's  address  is  Trafalgar. 
Milton — John  Hunt. 
Georgetown — William  Andrews.     • 
Stouffville — Cornelius  Flummerfelt. 

Richaed  Jones, 
Chairman  of  the  District. 
There  are  no  vacancies  in  the  above  stations.     Remarks, 
therefore,  ate  not  required. 

32.  The  next  in  order  was  the  Hamilton  District : — 
Hamilton — James  Elliott,  William  Haw,  George  N.  A. 

F.  T._Dickson ;  Samuel  Belton,  superannuated. 
Dundas — Isaac  B.  Howard,  James  Harris. 
Waterdown — Joseph  Messmore. 

Glanford  and  Seneca — Thomas  Williams,  James  Clark; 

Andrew  Prindel,  superannuated. 
Nanticohe — John  Goodfellow  (to  be  supplied). 
Dunnville — Luther  O.  Rice  (one  to  be  sent). 
Grimsby — Simon  Huntingdon,  William  Richardson, 
Stony  Greek — John  English, 


HIS   COTEMPORAKIES.  183 

St.  Catharines — George  Goodson. 

Thorold — Thomas  Bevitt,  E.  H.  Dewart,  who  is  to  reside 

at  St.  Johns. 
DrummcmdviUe — Alexander  T.  Green. 
Niagara — Claudius  Byrne. 

N.  B. — The  preachers  on  the  Drumrnondville  and  Niagara 
Circuits  shall  change  regularly. 

WeUand — Thomas  Jeffers  (to  be  supplied) ;  John  Baxter, 
superannuated. 

N.  B. — Bro.  Jeffers'  address  is  Crowland. 
Cainsville — Robert  Corson  (one  wanted). 

Thomas  Bevitt, 

Chairman. 

33.  From  the  above  list  it  will  be  seen  that  Nanticohe, 
Dunnville,  WeUand,  and  Cainsville  each  lacked  a  ministerial 
laborer.  Beginning,  for  sufficient  reasons,  with  the  last 
(CainsvUle),  which  went  the  year  before  by  the  name  of 
"  Cayuga  Heights,"  when  it  was  in  the  same  state  of  desti- 
tution, the  now  very  aged  incumbent,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Corson,  tells  me  with  his  trembling  pen  :  "  I  was  disap- 
pointed "  (of  a  supply).  "  Peter  German  and  the  Rev.  R. 
Heyland,  superannuated,  gave  me  one  Sabbath  in  two  weeks 
the  first  year.  The  second  year  a  local  preacher  from  Bur- 
ford  gave  us  the  same  amount  of  labor.  We  paid  them  for 
their  time."  He  who  wrote  the  above  says  :  "  I  am  in  my 
eighty-fifth  year."  Peace  to  the  dear  old  soldier  of  the 
cross  !  The  supply  for  Nanticohe  was  the  same  as  the  year 
before — our  energetic  Irish  friend,  John  V.  Wilson,  whose 
promising  characteristics  have  already  been  described.  The 
(apply  for  WeUand,  at  this  writing,  we  cannot  determine, 
the  then  Conference  appointee,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Jeffers, 
having  been  called  to  rest  from  his  labors. 


184  CASE,    AND 

'34.  The  next  in  order  according  to  the  Minutes  was  the 
Brantford  District : — 

Brantford —  Noble  F.  English  ;  Hamilton  Biggar,  Rowley 

Heyland,  superannuated. 
Mount  Pleasant. — Wm.  S.  Griffin  (one  wanted). 
Paris — Joseph  Shepiey  (one  wanted). 
Woodstock — Wm.  McCullough,  James  Dixon.* 
St.  George — Thomas  Fawcett. 
Gait — George  Kennedy. 
Ingersoll — Ozias  Barber,  John  Wakefield. 
Norwich—  Peter  German  (to  be  supplied).' 
Simcoe — Edwin  Clement. 

Dover — Wm.  Chapman ;  E.  M.  Ryerson,  superannuated. 
Walsingham — Matthew  Swann  (one  to  be  sent);  Matthias' 

Holtby,  supernumerary. 
Aylmer — Francis  Berry,  William  Williams. 
Vienna — O.  H.  Ellsworth. 
New  Credit — Matthew  Whiting  (one  wanted). 
Grand  River — Wm.  Ryerson  ;  Peter   Jones,  who  is  under 

the  direction  of  the  Superintendent  of  Missions. 
William  Ryeeson,  Chairmom. 

*  Woodstock  unhappily  requires  a  note.  Its  faithful  superintendent, 
Rev.  S.  C.  Philp,  sen. ,  was  afflicted  by  an  indiscretion  of  his  junior 
colleague,  who  had  to  be  dismissed.  We  find,  from  the  Minutes  of  the 
Coiiference  of  1855,  there  was  a  Brother  James  Morgan  received  on 
trial  and  credited  with  having  "labored  a  year  under  a  chauv 
man."  Turning  to  our  invaluable  referee,  Mr.  Cornish,  we  find  a 
brother  of  this  name  was  the  junior  preacher  at  Woodstock.  Turning,  \ 
yet  again,  to  the  Hand-Book  for  thafname,  we  find  that  he  died  in 
1858,  in  the  Minutes  of  which  year  we  look  up  his  obituary,  from 
which  we  get  all  the  information  of  this  brother  that  I  am  able  to  • 
furnish,  and  which  I  give  in  exlenso  : — 

"  Bro.  Morgan  died  in  Dundas,  on  the  4th  of  February,  1858,  in  the 
twenty-eighth  year  of  his  age,  and  in  the  third  of  his  ministry,  after 
an  illness  of  nearly  two  months.  ' 

He  was  a  native  of  England,  and  the  son  of  Mr.  John  Morgan,  of 


HIS  COTEMPORABIKS.  185 

35.  The  "one  wanted"  for  Mount  Pleasant  and  Paris 
in  each  case,  continued  to  be  wanted  to  the  end  of  the  year. 
The  reader  has  heard  in  advance  from  the  Rev.  Mr.  Shepley, 
that  Paris  had  no  supply  but  himself  for  the  present  year  as 
well  as  the  last.  As  to  Mount  Pleasant,  the  preacher  in 
charge  for  that  and  the  following  year  writes  as  follows  : — 
"  In  those  years,  namely, '54-55  and  '55-56,1  had  no  colleague. 
I  believe  the  Minutes  say  'one  to  be  sent ;'  but  none  was 
sent.  I  worked  the  circuit  alone,  and  had  glorious  success. 
— W.  S.  Gkiffin."  We  have  heard  from  the  Rev.  Peter 
German,  who  says  in  reply,  "  I  had  no  colleague  in  1854,  at 
Norwich.  A  young  man  by  the  name  of  Stone  was  appointed, 
but  never  came.  I  worked  the  circuit  with  the  aid  of  the 
local  preachers."  We  leave,  for  want  of  present  information, 
Waldngham  and  New  Credit  supplies  unaccounted  for. 

French  Road,  near  Kidderminster.  To  the  fifteenth  year  of  his  age  he 
manifested  no  concern  for  his  soul,  and  was,  therefore,  in  great  danger 
of  being  led  astray  by  a  wicked  associate.  He  was  not  without 
friendly  warnings  and  the  strivings  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  He  began  to 
reflect  At  the  same  time  he  was  pressingly  invited  to  attend  a  class 
and  engaged  to  do  so  ;  and,  though  he  afterwards  regietted  having 
made  the  promise,  yet  he  went.  On  that  very  night,  however,  the 
arrows  of  truth  pierced  his  soul.  He  was  in  deep  distress  during  the 
following  week,  till  the  next  class  night.  At  that  time  he  was  enabled 
to  believe  in  Christ,  when  he  received  a  full  assurance  of  God's 
pardoning  mercy.  From  that  hour  he  went  on  his  way  rejoicing  in 
God. 

Mr.  Morgan's  first  circuit  was  Woodstock ;  his  second,  Aylmer  ; 
his  third,  Ingersoll ;  and  his  last  one  Dundas.  To  increase  in  love  to 
to  God  Beemed  to  be  Mb  ardent  desire  for  months  previous  to  his  last 
iUneu. 

In  his  last  illness  he  showed  that  he  possessed  a  genuine  piety  and 
•  clear  experience  of  personal  Balvation.  His  life  had  been  character- 
ised by  simplicity  of  purpose  •  and  as  a  gospel  minister,  by  an 
ardent  and  well-tempered  zeal  for  God  and  the  prosperity  of  His 
Church,"  *     ?     i 


186  CASE,   AND 

36.  Th8  next  in  order  was  the  London  District : — 
London — Henry  Wilkinson,  Thomas  Stobbs.* 
London   Circuit — Thomas     Cleghorn,     Thomas     Crews; 
Edmund     Stoney,    Thomas    Harmon,    superan- 
nuated. 
Mount  Elgin  and  Muncey — Samuel  Rose,  whose  attention 
shall  be   principally  directed  to  the  Industrial 
School ;  John  Sunday,  Abraham  Sickles. 

*  There  were  peculiarities  which  affected  the  London  Circuit  for  the 
Conference  year  1854-55  which  occasioned  an  exchange  hetween  two 
brethren  and  led  to  the  calling  out  of  one  of  the  most  precious  young 
men  who  ever  exercised  his  ministry  in  the  Canada  Connexion.  These 
matters,  as  my  mind  was  recalled  to  them  after  the  text  was  written, 
I  present  in  a  note.  At  the  beginning  of  the  year,  the  Rev.  K. 
OreigMon  was  appointed  to  Bytown,  with  the  chairmanship  of  the 
district.      Towards  autumn,  a  sad  affliction  took  place  in  the  family 

of  Mrs.  C ,  near  London,  which  required  her  husband  to  remove 

thither  for  the  rest  of  the  year.  His  circumstances  would  allow  him 
to  render  some  help  on  Sabbaths  to  the  city  circuit ;  those  services 
were  accepted,  and  the  junior  minister  appointed  for  London,  Rev. 
Thos.  Stobbs,  was  despatched  to  Bytown  to  take  charge  of  that  impor- 
tant place  until  the  ensuing  Conference,  while  a  senior  brother  was 
placed  in  charge  of  that  district  by  the  Conference  Special  Committee. 
The  removal  of  the  young  preacher  out  of  the  Town  of  London  occa- 
sioned a  deficiency  of  pastoral  attention.  But  one  of  the  best  pastors, 
as  I  can  attest  by  having  him  afterwards  for  my  own  colleague,  was 
found  to  replace  him.  This  was  the  beloved  Joseph  L.  Sanders,  whose 
history  may  be  learned  from  his  Conference  obituary,  which  I  give 
entire  : — 

"  Brother  Sanders  was  born  in  Co  'wall, England,  in  the  year  1832. 
His  father  and  mother  were  both  mc  bers  of  the  "Wesleyan  Methodist 
Church,  thus  giving  him  the  advant  es  of  a  pious  home.  In  addition 
to  parental  instruction  and  example  '  had  the  sound  Scriptural  teach- 
ing of  the  'ministers  of  the  Parent  C  nnexion  in  England ;  therefore 
his  views  of  Christianity  were  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  standards 
of  our  Church.  He  was  never  troubled  with  misgivings  or  doubts 
respecting  the  importance  and  necessity  of  experimental  religion.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  gave  his         t  to  God,  finding  peace  and  accept- 


HIS    C0TEMP0KAB1ES. 


187 


St.  Thomas— William  Price,  Samuel  E.  Maudsley. 

Port  Sarnia — John  G.  Laird  (one  wanted). 

Strathroy — John  K.  Williston. 

Warwick — To  be  supplied. 

Port  Stanley — Francis  Chapman.  -    , 

St.  Glair — Solomon  Waldron. 

Devonshire — John  Webster. 

Belmont — Richard  Phelps. 

Samuel  Rose, 

Chairman  of  the  District. 
ance  with  Him,  while  listening  to  the  preaching  of  a  local  preacher. 
He  soon  began  to  exhort  others  to  seek  like  precious  faith,  and  was  in 
dufr  time  put  upon  the  plan  as  a  local  preacher  in  his  native  town. 
While  the  Superintendent  of  the  Devonport  Circuit,  England,  was 
negotiating  with  him  to  enter  the  itinerancy  there,  he  received  a  letter 
from  a  friend  in  Canada,  informing  him  that  men  were  needed  here. 
Regarding  this  as  a  providential  call,  he  at  once  decided  to  leave  all 
and  come  to  Canada.  He  arrived  here  in  the  fall  of  1854,  and  was  at 
once  appointed  to  assist  the  late  Rev.  Henry  Wilkinson  in  the  City  of 
London,  C.W.,  where  he  labored  with  great  acceptability  until  the 
Conference  of  1855,  when  he  was  received  on  trial  and  appointed  to 
the  Yonge  Street  Circuit,  in  the  Toronto  District.  The  work,  however, 
proved  to  be  too  much  for  his  strength.  His  health  failed  ;  and  at 
the  district  meeting  of  1856,  he  requested  to  be  allowed  to  retire,  fully 
intending  to  return  to  his  native  land  ;  but  after  a  few  months'  rest 
among  his  attached  friends  on  the  Yonge  Street  Circuit,  his  health 
was  measurably  restored,  which  led  him  to  change  his  purpose 
of  leaving  Canada,  so  he  went  to  Belleville,  to  assist  the  Rev.  John 
Carroll.  From  this  time  he  continued  to  labor  with  more  or  less 
usefulness  on  the  Three  Rivers,  Bradford,  Lloydtown,  Weston,  Bramp- 
ton, Whitby,  and  Oshawa  Circuits.  On  the  last-named  his  health 
tailed  again,  and  a  change  to  an  Indian  mission,  as  being  less  laborious, 
was  deemed  desirable.  At  the  end  of  two  years  his  health  was  so  far  re- 
stored ai  to  encourage  him  to  ask  for  an  appointment  in  the  regular 
circuit  work.  In  1871  he  received  an  appointment  to  the  Baltimore 
^Cirouit,  in  the  Cobourg  District.  During  the  greater  part  of  the  time 
he  was  able  to  do  his  work  with  some  degree  of  comfort,  and  the 
usual  success  attended  his  faithful  labors.  In  the  latter  part  of  the 
ysar  the  disease  which  at  last  brought  him  down  to  the  gra,ve  began  to 


188  CASE,   AND 

37.  The  assistant  preacher  at  Sarnia  along  with  the  Rev. 
John  G.  Laird,  according  to  Cornish's  Hand-Book,  was  Wm. 
Hawke,  a  chairman's  supply,  a  brother  who  afterwards  placed 
his  name  prominently  on  the  roll  of  the  Church's  pastorate. 
Though  married,  he  was  young — of  average  size — a  native  of 
Cornwall  or  Devonshire,  England,  who  had  come  out  to  To- 
ronto some  time  before,  and  was  useful  as  a  local  preacher, 
being  one  of  the  efficient  laborers  who  have  gone  forth  from 
Richmond  Street  Church. 

38.  Warwick  had  in  some  respects  a  similar,  but  a  very  ex- 
cellent supply — this  was  John  Wesley  Savage.  Like  Brother 
Hawke,  he  was  English ;  like  him,  had  "  given  pledge  for 
his  good  behavior,"  according  to  the  doctrine  of  Dr.  Franklin; 
by  having  a  wife  and  family  ;  and  like  him,  had  gone  out 
from  Toronto.  He  was  the  son  of  an  English  Wesleyan 
minister,  brother  of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Savage,  said  to  be  a  most 
soul-saving  laborer ;  and  he  had  been  thoroughly  educated- 
in  the  "  schools  for  the  preachers'  children."  His  education 
was  not  only  classical,  but  commercial :  he  was  an  excellent 
accountant,  and  had  for  some  time  been  a  bookkeeper  in  our 
Connexional  Book-room.  "  He  had  been  a  lively  local 
preacher,  and  business  and  accounts  could  not  extinguish 
his  love  to  souls  or  his  ardor  to  join  the  itinerant  battle 

appear.     His  days  were  numbered, — the  messenger  had  come  to  take 
him  from  his  labors  to  the  promised  reward.     The  Master  was  calling 
for  him,  and  he  must  go.     He,  however,  had  to  be  made  perfect  through ' 
suffering.     In  his  case,  patience  had  its  perfect  work.     His  sufferings 
were  severe,  yet  not  a  murmur  ever   fell  from  his  lips.     At  times, 
such  was  his  consciousness  of  the  Divine  presence,  as  to  raise  him 
above  his  bodily  sufferings  ;  and,  as  his  end  approached,  his  confident)* 
grew  stronger.     "There  was  not  a  cloud  to  darken   his  sky."    He 
could  say,  "I  am  ready  to  depart  and  be  with  Christ,  which  is  far 
better."     "  Christ  is  all."     Thus  lived  and  died  Joseph  L.  Sanders,  a  ' 
brother  beloved ;  in  the  forty-first  year  of  his  age,  and  eighteenth  of 
his  ministry," 


Bis  cotemporaries. 


189 


against  the  hosts  of  sin  and  darkness.  His  powerful  voice> 
both  for  singing  and  speaking,  and  his  glowing  manner,  pre- 
eminently qualified  him  to  take  part  in  revival  services. 
His  personal  appearance  and  manners  were  excellent ;  cordi- 
ality gave  him  access  to  the  people's  hearts.* 

39.  The  next  list  we  have  to  present  is  that  of  the  Chat- 
ham District : — 

Chatham — Edmund  Shepherd,  Thomas  D.  Pearson. 

WardsviHe — William  Ames. 

Wallacebwrgh — (Joseph  Forsythe). 

Morpeth — Joseph  Hugill  (one  wanted). 

Gosfield — William  Dignam. 

Sandwich  and  Windsor — Edward  White,  Thomas  Peacock. 

Amherstbwrg — E.  L.  Koyle. 

Edmund  Shepherd, 

Chairman  of  the  District. 

40.  Who  shall  tell  us  of  the  supply  to  the  vacancies  in  the 
above  list  ?    Brother  Hugill,  who  "  wanted  "  a  colleague  at 

•  We  have  referred  to  a  senior  brother  of  the  laborer  just  men- 
tioned, and  this  is  the  best  time  and  method  to  introduce  him.  Bel- 
mont had  the  Bee.  Richard  Phelps  appointed  to  its  charge  ;  but  we 
inspect  his  health  failed,  for  the  next  year  he  was  returned  as  "  super 
annua  ted."  In  his  place  a  very  vigorous  supply  was  found.  This 
was  William  Savage,  a  married  man,  but  with  a  not  very  large  family, 
and  having  a  most  Christian  lady  for  a  wife.  He  was,  as  will  be  in- 
ferred from  what  we  said  of  his  brother,  the  son  of  an  English  Wes- 
leyan  minister,  said  to  be  a  great  revivalist,  from  whom  his  sons  im- 
bibed their  zeal  and  push.  William  had  quite  as  good  opportunities 
for  education  as  his  brother,  and  had  been  brought  up  to  the  liberal  pro- 
fusion of  medicine.  He  was  a  long-practised  local  preacher,  and  he 
threw  himself  into  the  work  with  the  efficiency  of  an  experienced 
itinerant  New  appointments,  new  classes,  conversions  and  revivals, 
and  church-building  were  the  order  of  the  day  in  that  circuit,  as  they 
have  been  in  every  subsequent  circuit :  joined  to  these,  he  espoused 
and  promoted  the  temperance  cause  in  all  its  aspects.  The  next  year 
ht  was  received  on  trial. 


196  CASE,    Alto 

Morpeth,  is  no  longer  on  earth  to  answer  inquiries  ;  and  the 
chairman  himself  has  long  since  gone  to  his  account.  Alas, 
that  he  should  have  "fainted  "  before  he  fell !  Early  in  the 
year  a  charge  of  immorality  was  brought  home  to  him,  and 
the  judiciary  of  the  Church,  jealous  for  its  honor,  expelled 
him.  The  Rev.  John  Hutchinson,  whom  we  have  seen  ad- 
mitted into  the  acknowledged  ministry  of  the  body  at  the 
preceding  Conference,  and  who  had  been  designated  to  New- 
castle, was  countermanded  and  sent  to  the  town  at  the  head 
of  this  district. 

41.  Our  next  is  the  Guelph  District : — 
Guelph — Lewis  Warner,  Richard  Clarke.- 
Mora — James  Armstrong  (one  wanted). 

Berlin  and  Blenheim — John  Williams,  Andrew  Smith. 
Peel — Henry  Reid  (one  wanted) ;  Ezra  Adams,  superan- 
nuated. 
Stratford — George  Case. 
St.  Marys— C.  W.  M.  Gilbert. 
Clinton-^ Alexander  Campbell. 
Ooderich — Charles  Sylvester,  George  Cochran. 
Mitchell — Lucius  Adams. 
Kincardine — Wm.  Creighton. 
Arthur — One  to  be  sept. 

Mono  —John  L.  Kerr  ;  William  Steer,  superannuated, s 
Erin — To  be  supplied. 

WeUesley — To  be  supplied.  .-■.:• 

Grey — John  Armstrong,  1st. 
Morris — To  be  supplied. 

Lewis  Warner,  Chairman. 

42.  I  believe  I  have  found  the  clue,  after  some  sort,  to 
the  solution  of  the  unexplained  matters  in  this  district  for 
the  year  1854-55.  Elords  supply,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
year,  we  have  reason  to  believe,  was  James  E.  Dyer.  Though 
then  but  a  chairman's  provision,  he  was  destined  to  make,  srf 


HIS     OTEMPORAEIES.  191 

far  as  labor,  integrity,  and  success  are  concerned,  one  of  the 
"  strongest  men  "  in  the  body.  I  am  sorry  that,  at  this 
late  hour,  I  discovered  that  he  was  appointed  to  a  circuit 
that  year,  I  have  not  time  to  secure  precise  data  for  the 
salient  points  in  his  previous  life  ;  but  I  know  the  man,  and 
gathered  some  scattered  hints  from  his  conversation.  Is  11 
not  be  far  wrong  if  I  say  he  was  of  English  parents,  and 
possibly,  born  in  England  himself,  but  had  lived  in  early  life 
in  one  or  more  of  the  larger  cities  of  Lower  Canada.  His 
energetic  organization  had  exposed  him,  while  in  an  unre- 
generated  state,  to  habits  which  placed  him  on  the  verge  of 
ruin.  But  in  one  of  those  powerful  revivals,  for  which  To- 
ronto was  famous  a  good  many  years,  he  became  the  partaker 
of  transforming  grace,  and  speedily  threw  his  constitutional 
energies  into  efforts  for  the  advancement  of  the  cause  of 
Christ  He  had  a  strong,  clear,  quick  mind,  and  his  rapid 
speaking  was  very  forceful.  His  early  opportunities  may 
not  have  been  very  great,  but  after  conversion,  he  assidu- 
ously improved  his  mind.  Brother  Richard  Clarke  had 
been  appointed  to  Guelph,  but,  for  some  reason,  an  exchange 
was  made  after  the  year  was  half  gone,  and  he  went  to  Elora, 
while  Brother  Dyer  was  brought  to  Gwlph.  Dyer's  dark 
hair  and  skin,  with  his  compact  frame,  gave  augury  of  the 
large  amount  of  labor  and  toil  he  was  to  undergo. 

43.  The  vacancy  at  Peel  was  destined  to  be  filled  by  a 
young  man  not  large  in  stature,  and  whose  appearance  was 
rather  indicative  of  frailty,  but  who  was  to  perform  long 
years  of  service  in  the  itinerant  field  with  vigor  and  spirit. 
This  was  Alexander  B.  Campbell,  born  at  Mount  Pleasant, 
September  12th,  1827,  but  left  fatherless  at  the  early  age  of 
two  years.  The  cruelties  of  a  drinking  stepfather  led  him 
to  seek  his  fortune  abroad  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  The 
Township  of  Blenheim  became  his  residence  until  he  com- 
menced preaching.    The  heavy  occupations  of  bush  fanning 


192  CASE,   AN6 

were  his  first  employment.  Next,  by  incredible  assiduity, 
he  qualified  himself  for  school  teaching,  which  he  followed 
for  some  years.  The  hardships  of  his  youth  were  cheered 
and  ameliorated  by  converting  grace,  received  in  a  revival, 
conducted  principally  by  two  excellent  local  peeachers, 
Messrs.  Jared  Kilborn  and  Dennis  Thompson;  at  the  age  of 
eighteen.  This  brother,  who  says  he  "obtained  the  little, 
knowledge  he  possessed  under  great  difficulties,"  had  the 
good  fortune,  after  some  years,  to  marry  a  lady  of  education 
and  talent,  whose  conversation  and  suggestions,  it  is  not 
likely,  were  of  any  dis-service  to  him. 

44.  Mr.  Cornish  assigns  the  supply  of  Erin  to  James 
Berry,  a  brother  of  the  Rev.  Francis  Berry,  who,  like  his 
brother  Francis,  had  labored  in  some  smaller  Methodist  body 
— the  Episcopal,  I  surmise.  He  gave  so  much  satisfaction 
during  this  year,  that  he  was  received  on  trial  at  the  next 
Conference,  and  received  ordination  at  the  one  after  that ; 
but,  as  he  then  left  and  went  to  the  States,  I  follow  him  no 
further. 

45.  Morris  scarcely  yet  assumed  the  status  of  a  circuit, 
but  was  supplied  by  the  ministration  of  the  Clinton  preacher, 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Campbell.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
strength,    and    could    easily    perform    extra   work.*      The 

*  Since  the  above  was  written,  a  letter  from  the  brother  concerned, 
which  I  have  recovered  from  among  my  papers,  gives  the  true  solu- 
tion. About  three  years  before  this  time,  there  fell  under  my  pastoral 
care  in  Hamilton,  a  young  man,  the  son  of  one  of  our  leading  friends 
in  Guelph,  who  possessed  a  good  mind  and  unmistakable  talents  for 
usefulness,  whose  reluctance  to  public  efforts  I  endeavored,  with  no 
very  great  success,  to  overcome.  I  was,  therefore,  glad  when  I  heard,, 
a  few  years  after,  thar  he  had  entered  the  work.  Here  is  his  own  ac- 
count of  the  matter  :— "On  the  4th  of  July,  1854,  Brother  Warner 
met  me  at  a  carup-meeting  at  Bond  Head,  and  he  and  many  others  in- 
sisted on  my  going  immediately  into  the  work.  I  had  just  consecrated 
myself  anew  to  God;  and  after  spending  the  night  in  prayer,  with 


BIS  COTEMPORARIES.  193 

brother  labored  on  from  that  time,  but  he  was  so  hesitating 
about  his  call,  that  he  did  not  allow  his  name  to  appear  in 
the  Minutes,  as  received  on  trial,  till  1857.  Arthwr  I  cannot 
account  for  like  Morris,  it  may  have  been  supplied  still  from 
the  circuit  with  which  it  had  previously  stood  attached,  for 
it  was  a  new  creation.  It  may  have  been  supplied,  as  a 
chairman's  employee,  by  him  who  served  it  the  next  year 
(Mr.  Lawson),  of  whom  more  anon. 

46.  We  proceed  to  another  section  of  the  work,  the  Owen 
Sound  District : — 

Newash  and  Colpoy's  Bay — Conrad  Vandusen. 

Owen  Sound — Samuel  Fear  ;  J.  Neelands,  supernumerary. 

St.  Vincent — Te  be  supplied. 

Saugeen — Peter  Jacobs. 

Southampton — George  Jacques. 

Derby — David  Hunt. 

Durham — To  be  supplied. 

Walker's  Mills — One  wanted. 

Proton — Thomas  Culbert. 

Osprey — To  be  stipplied. 

Bruce  Mines — Joseph  Hill. 

Garden  River — George  W.  McDougall. 

Lake  Superior,  North  Shore — George  Blaker. 

Conrad  Vandusen,  Chairman. 

47.  It  will  be  seen  that  four  supplies  were  required  for 
the  district,  and  I  believe  they  were  found  ;  but,  even  after 
consulting  the  chairman  for  that  year,  I  am  not  positively 
certain  about  them  all,  or  how  they  were  arranged.  There 
were  about  that  time,  embracing  several  years,  three  or  four 

some  friends,  I  consented  to  go.     I  was  at  once  sent,  under  Brother 
A.  Campbell's  (1st)  superintendency,  to  C.inton.     My  destination  was 
Morris   Mission,  then  just   forming."     This  letter  is  signed  John 
Hough. 
9 


1&4  CASE,  AS6 

brethren,  adapted  to  present  usefulness,  whom,  for  Various 
reasons,  differing  in  each  case,  it  was  thought  well  not  to 
bring  forward  for  admission  into  the  Conference,  employed 
in  that'region  as  temporary  supplies.  If  "  history  is  "philo- 
sophy teaching  by  examples,"  then  the  teaching  of  Canadian 
Methodist  history  relative  to  the  employment  of  supplies, 
whom  it  is  never  intended  to  introduce  into  the  permanent 
ministry  of  the  Church,  may  be  very  necessary  at  some 
times  to  prevent  the  work  from  suffering,  yet  it  is  an  experi- 
ment not  unattended  with  future  inconvenience  and  injury. 
My  own  humble  opinion  is,  that  if  the  brother  is  not  likely 
to  answer  in  all  respects  for  the  ministry  let  him  go  back  as 
soon  as  possible  to  his  secular  calling ;  otherwise  you  may 
be  doing  him  a  great  dis-service  by  taking  the  active  years  of 
his  life  and  then  turn  him  off  without  any  provision  for  old^ 
age  ;  and  if  he  go  away  discontented,  he  may  throw  himself 
into  the  arms  of  some  little  rival  community,  of  whom  there 
are  quite  enough,  who  will  avail  themselves  of  his  knowledge 
of  our  denomination  and  his  influence  in  it  to  introduce  de- 
visive  measures  among  societies  which  would  be  otherwise 
peaceful.  Therefore,  if  fairly  useful,  and  we  need  them,  they 
should  receive  ordination  with  some  prospect  of  provision 
for  their  declining  years,  or  else  sent  home.  The  cases  of 
Richard  Williams,  Wm,  Gundy,  and  George  Cooke,  to  men- 
tion no  more,  may  be  produced  as  examples. 

48.  I  do  not  intend  to  apply  the  above  remarks  to  all,  if 
any,  of  those  I  am  about  to  mention  ;  but  I  have  to  say, 
that  the  following  brethren  seem  to  have  been  available  to 
man  the  breaches  in  the  ranks  on  the  Owen  Sound  District 
during  the  year  1854-55,  namely  :  Edward  Cooke,  who  has 
come  into  view  several  times  before,  a  little  Englishman, 
with  a  pious,  honest  heart,  some  unique  qualities  of  mind, 
which,  among  other  things,  fitted  him  for  effective  writing  on 
some  topics  in  a  proverbial  sort  of  style^  but  whose  manners 


MIS  COTEMPOBARIES.  1^5 

were  so  peculiar  and  whose  idiosyncracies  of  mind,  amount- 
ing to  such  marked  eccentricities  as  to  render  it  unwise 
to  "lay  hands"  upon.  Indeed,  he  ultimately  became  subject 
to  seasons  of  derangement,  which  in  the  end  removed  him 
from  all  connection  with  the  work,  and  I  opine  that  he  went 
to  the  United  States.  It  is  but  just  to  say  that  this  brother 
never  acted  the  part  of  a  traitor,  or  betrayed  any  trust. 

49.  Next  there  was  a  " Fatlier  Atkey,"  a  good,  instructive, 
and  exemplary  local  preacher,  from  England,  who  was  ever 
ready  to  advance  the  cause  of  Christ  in  any  way  he  could, 
and  who  was  sometimes,  if  not  often,  a  very  useful  supply 
on  a  circuit.  He  adhered  to  Wesleyan  Methodism  till  his 
death,  which  was  a  fragrant  one,  and  his  name  in  that 
region  now  is  as  "  ointment  poured  forth,"  and  he  has  left 
descendants  who  sympathize  with  the  cause  their  father  loved. 

50.  Then,  for  that  year,  there  was  a  superior  young  man, 
a  native  of  Ireland,  tall  and  sightly  enough,  but  so  modest 
that  he  was  scarcely  prepossessing,  yet  with  a  good  mind 
and  a  respectable  education,  and  was  also  a  good  preacher, 
who  that  year  supplied  a  vacancy  under  the  chairman,  and 
did  good  service.  He  was  received  on  trial  at  the  next  Con- 
ference, and  has  risen  to  a  very  respectable  position  in  our 
ministry.  We  are  writing  of  our  much-esteemed  and  loved 
brother,  the  Rev.  William  Sltauiion,  to  whom  wo  applied  for 
specific  data,  which  has  not  yet  arrived.  Subsequent  infor- 
mation enables  mo  to  say,  that  he  was  born  at  Lough  Point, 
in  the  Sligo  Circuit ;  knew  scores  of  Irish  Wesley  an  minis- 
ters, who  preached  and  lodged  in  his  father's  house  ;  joined 
class  at  fourteen,  converted  at  eighteen,  and  made  a  leader 
at  once  ;  ten  years  a  Hibernian  school  teacher  ;  came  to 
Canada  with  his  friends  in  lSfiO;  settled  in  the  woods  of 
Artemesia  in  March,  1853;  eighteen  months  after,  went 
into  the  work. 

61.  There  is  yet  another  to  mention.     There  are  in  many 


196  CASE,   AND 

• 

of  our  circuits  gifted  local  preachers,  who,  had  they 
abstained  from  marriage,  and  offered  themselves  for  the  full 
ministry  of  4he  Word  in  youth,  and  assiduously  cultivated 
their  minds  while  ductile  and  susceptible,  would  have 
risen  to  eminence  as  local  preachers,  but  who  have  let  the 
golden  opportunity  pass  by.  They  love  preaching,  and 
render  themselves  very  useful  in  their  several  circuits ;  and 
while  the  geniality  and  unsuspiciousness  of  youth  continue, 
they  are  willing  and  amiable  auxiliaries  of  the  circuit  preach- 
ers. But  after  a  time  they  begin  to  value  their  own  labors 
very  highly,  and  think  that  they  are  not  properly  appre- 
ciated. They  grow  into  the  habit  of  criticising  and  depre- 
ciating the  regular  pastors,  and  generally  stand  opposed  to 
their  receiving  sufficient  support,  citing  their  own  gratuitous 
labors.  In  such  a  case  as  this  they  must  receive  more  occu- 
pation, or  "  Satan  "  will  "  find  some  mischief  still  for  their 
idle  hands  to  do."  The  brother  I  am  about  to  introduce 
was  of  this  kind.  He  was  a  Bay  Quinte  man,  a  Palatine, 
the  son-in-law  of  one  of  the  early  pillars  of  the  Church ;  he 
was  a  gifted,  gracious  young  man  when  an  exhorter  and  in 
the  early  days  of  his  local  preaching,  but  gradually  he  fell 
into  the  spirit  and  habits  I  have  described.  His  family 
grew  up  and  were  settled  in  life ;  he  thought  he  might  be 
useful  in  a  wider  sphere,  and  others  thought  so  too.  He 
was  consequently  put  in  charge  of  a  circuit,  and  employed 
for  some  years — usefully,  I  believe — and  c'ould  he  have 
received  ordination  he  would  probably  have  been  content ', 
and  I  am  one  of  those  who  think  it  a  pity  he  could  not  have 
received  it,  and  been  utilized  to  the  Church.  But  the 
majority  voted  against  his  reception  into  the  Conference. 
He  was  disgusted,  and  other  arms  were  open  to  receive  him; 
he  united  with  a  section  of  Colonial  Methodism,  which, 
unhappily,  cherishes  and  magnifies  an  old  feud  against  the 
great  central  body,  which  has  embittered  their  own  spirits 


HIS    OOTEMPOIURIES.  197 

and  often  placed  us  in  a  disparaging  light.  The  reader  will 
not  be  surprised  to  learn,  that  wherever  he  afterwards  went 
he  showed  anything  but  a  friendly  spirit  towards  "  the 
mother  that  bore  him."  I  am  writing  of  Peter  Empey,  who 
was  one  of  the  supplies  indicated  for  the  year. 

52.  There  was  yet  another,  whom  I  ought,  perhaps,  to 
have  mentioned  before.  He  was  a  married  man,  with  one 
child,  but  young,  who  was  called  out  as  a  chairman's  supply, 
with  the  expectation  that  he  would  become  an  acceptable 
and  permanent  laborer  in  the  ministry,  which  he  did  become. 
He  had  a  very  commanding,  handsome  person,  a  pleasant 
elocution,  and  all  the  elements  of  a  preacher  above  medioc- 
rity, which  he  became.  I  am  writing  of  Bro.  W.  if.  Dyre, 
who  gave  me  his  antecedents,  but,  now  they  are  wanted,  I 
cannot  fully  recall  them.  That  he  was  a  Canadian  and 
trained  in  the  Wesleyan  Church  I  am  sure,  but  further, 
till  more  inquiry,  I  cannot  go. 

53.  I  have  mentioned  five  disposable  men,  and  but  four 
vacancies.  It  is  likely  that  Mr.  Atkey  was  not  employed 
this  year.  How,  then,  shall  we  distribute  the  other  four  ? 
The  chairman  says  that  Mr.  Empy  supplied  St.  Vincent, 
which  is  most  likely  correct ;  but  while  he  says  E.  Cooke 
supplied  Osprey,  Mr.  Cornish  gives  it  to  Mr.  Shannon.  And 
to  the  correctness  of  this  last  I  incline,  because  Mr.  ('. 
obtained  his  information  from  Danse's  Register,  or  the 
brethren  themselves.  The  chairman  gives  Walker's  Mills  to 
Mr.  Dyre.  These  conclusions  would  throw  Edward  Cooke 
on  to  Durham.  Thus,  between  Conference  preachers  and 
hired  locals,  was  the  district  supplied. 

54.  The  next  was  the  Barrie  District : — 
Barrie — John  Douse,  John  S.  Clarke. 
Bradford — William  Young,  Richard  J.  Foreman. 
Cookstown — Joel  Briggs. 

Ji'etcmarket — William  Willoughbv,  William  McDouagh. 


198  CASE,    AND 

Holland  Landing — Andrew  Edwards. 
Snake  Island — To  be  supplied. 
Broch — George  T.  Richardson. 
Rama — Horace  Dean. 
Orillia — To  be  supplied. 
Penetanguishene — Stephen  Brownell. 
Beausoliel  and  French  River — To  be  supplied. 
Collingwood  Harbor — Edward  Sallows. 

John  Douse,  Chairman. 

55.  There  were  only  three  vacancies  in  this  small  district, 
and  two  of  them  such  as  were  usually  provided  for  by  tem- 
porary expedients.  Beausoliel,  dec,  were  likely  provided  for 
by  some  gifted  Indian  brother,  of  whom  there  were  several, 
in  various  relationships,  in  the  employ  of  the  missionary 
department  of  the  Church.  Good  Bro.  Edwards,  at  Holland 
Landing,  most  likely  gave  the  Snake  Island  Indians  all  the 
regular  pastoral  oversight  they  had  from  the  ministry ;  the 
rest  wo  aid  be  afforded  by  the  devoted  teacher,  Mr.  Law,  and 
the  gifted  Indian  officials.  As  to  Orillia,  it  was  supplied  by 
one  of  the  useful  young  men  who  had  swarmed  out  of 
Richmond  Street  Church,  Toronto.  This  was  the  stout  and 
enduring,  but  very  pious  and  devout-spirited  Jabez  Bunting 
Keough,  brother  of  the  now  Rev.  Thomas  Keough.  His 
having  received  the  name  of  the  great  Methodist  sage  and 
administrator,  Jabez  Bunting,  was  not  merely  because  of  his 
parents'  pious  admiration  of  that  great  man,  but  because 
they  were  lineally  descended,  on  the  maternal  side,  from  the 
family  of  that  good  man.  The  settlement  of  the  family  in 
a  bush  neighborhood  while  the  boy  was  of  a  tender  age  was 
the  means  of  depriving  young  Jabez  of  some  educational 
advantages  which  others  of  the  family  had  enjoyed.  I  have 
reason  to  believe  that  Leeds,  Canada  East,  had  proved  his 
spiritual  birthplace,  and  that  the  advantages  of  Toronto  had 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  199 

been  the  means  of  quickening  him  into  a  higher  state  of 
religious  enjoyment.  The  natural  slowness  of  his  mind, 
and  deliberateness  in  speaking,  did  not  at  first  promise 
much  for  him,  considered  merely  as  a  pulpit  man  ;  but  his 
deep  experience  of  the  things  of  God,  and  the  unction  that 
rested  on  him,  compensated  for  this  lack,  and  diligent  and 
patient  study,  and  no  less  than  three  years  at  Victoria  Col- 
lege as  a  Conference  student,  went  far  to  supply  the  lack 
itself.  For  prudence,  piety,  and  pastoral  care,  he  was  to 
prove  entirely  unexceptionable. 

56.  Our  next  stage   will  comprise   the   stations    of  the 
Cobourg  District  : — 

Gobourg — George   H.    Davis,    Samuel  S.   Nelles,   A.M., 
Principal  of  Victoria  College ;  Samuel  D.  Rice, 
Governor  ;  James  Taylor,  John  Shaw,  students ; 
John  Beatty,  superannuated. 
Port  Hope — Joseph  \Y.  McCollum,  William  Tomlin. 
Bowmanville — Thomas  Cosford,  John  Mills. 
Newcastle — John  Hutchinson. 

Cartwright  and  Scugog — Thomas  Hanna  (one  to  be  sent). 
Millbrook — James  Hughes  (one  to  be  sent) ;  Moses  Black- 
stock,  supernumerary. 
Peterborough — AVilliam  H.  Poole. 
Mud  Lake* — John  Sanderson. 
Rice  Lake — William  Herkimer. 

Alderville — James  Musgrove,  whose  attention  shall  be 
principally  directed  to  the  Industrial  School ; 
William  Case,  with  permission  to  visit  different 
parts  of  the  work,  as  his  health  and  circum- 
stances may  permit. 
Colbone — James  G.  Witted. 

*  Mr.  Cornish's  Hand-Book  says  that  James  A.  /tieaon^labored  on 
that  mission  during  the  year  1854-55,  but  whether  in  Mr.  Sanderson's 
place  or  as  his  assistant  we  have  not  now  time  to  learn. 


200  CASE,    AND 

• 

Lindsay — John  C.  Osborne,  who  •will  exchange  with  the 
minister  at  Metcalfe  once  in  six  weeks ;  Garrett 
J.  Dingman. 

Metcalfe — To  be  supplied. 

Norwood — George  Carr,  John  Fawcett. 

James  Musgeove,  Chairman. 

57.  The  first  deficiency  in  the  number  of  preachers 
required  was  in  Lindsay,  whose  Superintendent  was  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Hanna.  An  exceedingly  well-informed  and 
active  member  of  the  district  at  that  time,  the  Rev.  James 
Hughes,  informs  us  by  letter  :  "T.  Hanna  was  alone  in  Lind- 
say both  in  1853-54  and  1854-55."  This  settles  the  matter 
for  this  year,  and  confirms  my  supposition  for  the  year  before. 

58.  Millbroolce  was  the  next  place  where  there  was  a 
vacancy.  The  then  Superintendent,  Mr.  Hughes,  tells  me 
that  Samuel  Down  was  his  assistant.  For  this  I  was  not 
prepared,  supposing  that  Mr.  Down  was  not  employed  till  a 
year  later.  I  have  therefore  learned  this  too  late  to  acquire 
a  knowledge  of  the  facts  of  Bro.  D.'s  previous  history 
definitely.  But  I  know  enough  of  this  good  brother  to  be 
safe  in  saying  :  He  was  a  native  of  England,  of  either 
Devonshire  or  Cornwall.  In  that  hotbed  of  Methodism  he 
was  warmed  into  spiritual  and  official  life.  He  possessed  a 
mind  with  a  strong  proclivity  for  theological  studies,  in 
which  he  afterwards  became  both  profound  and  accurate. 
His  mind  and  manners  were  sober  and  Christian-like.  Ho 
was  calm,  self-possessed,  and  correct  in  speaking,  and  if  his 
address  had  been  as  impassioned  as  it  was  solemn  and  impres- 
sive, his  ministry  would  have  been  as  attracting  as  it  was 
respectable.     He  was  destined  to  be  a  quiet,  faithful  laborer 

in  ciicuits  where  his  aliliiy  was  rot  always  fljpieciated. 
Mr.  Down  was  in  person  tall,  intellectual-looking,  with  light 
u  rly  hair, 
o 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  201 

59.  Metcalfe  was  provided  for  by  a  chairman's  supply,  a 
married  man,  but  without  children,  and  his  wife  was  a  capa- 
ble, worthy  person.  He  was  a  man  of  superior  personal 
beauty ;  alas  !  perhaps  too  much  so.  A  ■  man  who,  in  his 
slap-dash  way,  acquired  the  fame  of  working  up  his  circuits, 
but  who,  in  the  end,  grossly  wronged  his  wife  and  disgraced 
the  cause  ;  and  I  shall  abstain  from  polluting  my  pages  with 
his  name. 

60.  These  were  all  the  vacancies  ;  and  all  I  have  further 
to  remark  is,  that  for  some  reason — unless,  perhaps,  because 
he  was  the  better  preacher,  and  more  qualified  for  the  place 
—  Mr.  Dingman  was  changed  through  the  year  from  Lindsay 
to  Xorwood,  and  Mr.  Slater's  colleague  at  the  latter  place, 
who  had  been  there  the  preceding  year,  sent  to  Lindsay. 

61.  We  take  another  step  eastward,  in  the  Provincial 
Connexion,  and  come  to  the  Belleville  District : — 

Belleville — George  Young. 

Consecon — Michael  Fawcett,  Charles  Taggart ;  C.  R.  Alli- 
son, superannuated. 

J'icton  -J.    C.    Slater,   William  Bryers  ;    Gilbert  Miller, 
Daniel  McM  alien,  supernumeraries. 

Sidney — John  Lever  (one  to  be  sent). 

Brighton — William  MeKadden,  Thomas  Woolsey. 

Demortstrille — Vincent  B.  Howard. 

Shannonville — Peter  German. 

Hungnrford — Nelson  Brown. 

Modoc — Michael  Baxter  ;  Stephen  Miles,  superannuated. 

Rawdon — John  Black. 

Percy  and  Seymour — W.  H.  Williams,  Jay  Youinans. 

William  McFadden, 

Chairman. 

62.  There  was  but  one  vacancy  in  the  district,  and  that 
was  satisfactorily  supplied.     The  vacancy  was    the  second 


202  CASE,   AND 

• 

preacher's  place  on  the  old  Sidney  Circuit.  It  was  supplied 
by  a  young  Irish  Canadian,  born  near  Perth,  and  brought 
into  the  Methodist  faith.  He  was  not  converted,  however 
till  the  family  moved  westward  from  their  first  Canadian 
home.  This  event  took  place  about  the  age  of  eighteen. 
He  showed  a  vehement  zeal  for  God  from  the  time  he  first 
tasted  of  His  love,  and  proved  to  have  talents  as  well  as 
zeal.  He  was  gifted,  voluble,  and  fervent  in  spirit,  horta- 
tory and  awakening.  These  gifts  were  apparently  enhanced 
by  physical  strength  and  energy,  and  constitutional  vehem- 
ence. He  was  furnished  with  all  that  was  comprised  in  an 
English  education :  he  held  a  first-class  certificate,  and  had 
been  a  popular  and  successful  school-teacher.  He  was 
medium  in  height,  but  his  weight  was  greatly  beyond  his 
apparent  size ;  and  when  we  say  he  was  a  blonde,  with  curly 
hair  and  beard,  there  are  many  who  will  know  that  I  am 
describing  David  A.  Johnston.  He  succeeded  well  on  his 
circuit,  and  staid  there  a  second  year.  He  was  the  means 
of  promoting  many  revivals. 

63.  Our  next  stride  eastward  brings  us  to  the  Kingston 
District : — 

Kingston— John  Ryerson,  Geo.  Douglas,  Geo.  McRitchie; 

Henry  Byers,  supernumerary. 
Napanee — George  F.  Playter  (to  be  supplied). 
Wilton — John  A.  Williams,  Abraham  Dayman. 
Bath  and  Amherst  Isle —  George  Beynon,  Aaron  Miller. 
Waterloo — William  Philp. 
Gananoque — Charles  Turver. 
Newborough — Robert  Robinson  (one  to  be  sent). 
Farmersville — David  Clappison,  J.  W..  Germain. 
Newburg — Charles  Pish  ;  I.  B.  Aylsworth,  supernumerary. 
Sheffield — To  be  supplied. 


BIB  C0TEMP0BAR1ES.  203 

Binchinbrooh — John  D.  Pugh. 
Storrington — To  be  supplied. 

John  Ryerson,  Co-Delegate, 

Chairman. 
N.  B. — Bev.  S.  D.  Bice  will  take  charge  of  this  district  until  the 
oo-Delegate  returns  from  Hudson  Bay. 

64.  There  were  four  laborers  required  to  fill  the  blanks. in 
the  printed  list  of  stations  for  this  distriot.  I  am  morally 
certain  they  were  all  supplied ;  but  by  whom  two  of  the 
places  were  supplied  at  this  writing  I  cannot  say.  Sheffield 
was  supplied  by  a  Bro.  WiUiam  Briden,  a  married  man,  and 
a  thorough  Englishman.  He  had  been  a  laborer  on  a  oircuit 
as  a  hired  local  preacher  in  England  itself,  and  I  am  quite 
sure  he  so  labored  in  Canada,  before  being  received  on  trial. 
Though  married,  he  was  young  and  blooming.  A  compact, 
strong,  healthy  man  was  he,  well  adapted  to  the  toils  of  the 
Canadian  itinerancy.  He  possessed  an  active,  fair  mind, 
which,  whatever  he  may  have  lacked,  had  been  carefully 
cultivated,  with  a  view  to  usefulness  in  his  ministerial  work. 
An  amiable  man,  a  considerate  pastor,  and  a  plain,  sound 
preacher  was  William  Briden. 

65.  Of  the  supply  for  Storrington,  we  are  certain  this 
time.  Just  remember  that  "  Battersea  "  is  a  village  in  the 
Township  of  Storrington,  and  that  the  mission  at  first  took 
its  name  from  the  Township,  and  afterwards  from  the  vil- 
lage, and  all  that  is  said  in  the  obituary,  which  I  am  about 
to  quote,  will  be  intelligible.  And  I  may  attest,  that  as  far 
as  I  know,  that  the  brother  referred  to  was  all  that  was  said 
by  those  entrusted  to  draw  up  the  following  statements  : — 

"  Jamet  Thompson  was  born  at  Switzerville,  on  the  New- 
burg  Circuit,  on  the  24th  of  September,  1829,  and  converted 
to  God  on  the  16th  of  November,  1840. 

"  From  the  time  of  his  conversion,  till  bis  entrance  into 


204  CASE,    AND 

the  ministry,  and — as  his  brethren  know — until  his  death, 
his  life  was  blameless.  His  voice  was  always  heard  in 
prayer-meeting.  He  never  missed  his  class  but  once  when 
at  home  and  able  to  be  present.  Very  soon  after  his  con- 
version, feeling  the  importance  of  mental  culture,  in  order  to 
the  ministry  of  the  Word  in  connection  with  our  Church,  he 
applied  himself  faithfully  to  study,  and  in  August,  1834,  was 
sent  to  the  Battersea  mission.  His  next  Circuit  was  Brad- 
ford. He  was  then  sent  to  College  for  two  years,  after  which 
he  labored  on  the  following  Circuits  in  this  order  :  Napanee, 
Brewer's  Mills,  Oil  Springs,  Milford,  and  Rednerville,  where 
he  finally  broke  down  in  health  from  overwork,  and  was 
obliged  to  superannuate.  Prom  Rednerville  he  removed  to 
Napanee,  and  there,  so  far  as  God  gave  him  strength,  he 
labored  with  great  zeal  and  fidelity  until  his  death ;  but, 
though  early  called  from  labor  to  reward,  it  was  only  after 
he  had  done  a  work  of  deep  and  abiding  value  to  the  Church 
of  God. 

"  That  life  is  long  which  answers  life's  great  end." 

"  On  all  his  Circuits  he  was  favored  with  extensive  revi- 
vals, or  he  prepared  the  ground  for  them.  The  reasons  of 
his  success  were  as  follows  :  he  had  great  singleness  of  pur- 
pose, he  was  firm  in  his  adherence  to  what  he  believed  to  be 
right,  and  faithful  in  his  denunciation  of  all  he  believed  to 
be  wrong.  His  love  for  his  Master  and  his  work  was  ab- 
sorbing. He  was  converted  to  God,  and  knew  it.  He  had 
a  profound  conviction  that  he  was  called  of  God  to  preach 
the  Gospel,  and  to  fight  with  every  form  of  evil  about  him. 
He  believed  himself  guided  of  God  habitually.  He  served 
the  Lord  Christ,  and  counting  himself  the  servant  of  the 
Church,  for  Jesus'  sake  gladly  gave  to  the  promotion  of  its 
interest  all  his  energies,  and  all  his  time,  and  when  laid 
aside,  he  was  not  content  with  past  achievements,  but  be- 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  205 

cause  he  loved  his  Master  and  the  souls  of  men,  he  was  "  in- 
stant in  season  and  out  of  season,"  perpetually  planning  new 
works.  And  seeing  what  obstructions  intemperance  and 
ignorance  offered  to  .the  spread  of  religion,  he  labored  for  the 
overthrow  of  the  license  system,  and  for  the  introduction  of 
Methodist  literature  into  the  homes  of  the  people." 

66.  We  pass  to  the  next  division  of  the  work,  the  Brock- 
ville  District. 

Srockville — Richard  Whiting. 

Prescott — James  Gray. 

Maitland — Asahel  Hurlburt,  Edwin  Peake. 

Perth—  David  C.  M'Dowell. 

Kemptville — James  Greener.      To  be  supplied.      Henry 
Shaler,  superannuated. 

Matilda — Francis  Coleman.     One  to  be  sent. 

Smith's  Falls — Sylvester  Hurlburt ;    Wm.  Brown,  Super- 
numerary. 

Carleton-Place — Joseph  Reynolds,  "William  Braden. 

Packenhaim — John  Armstrong  2nd. 

Merrkkville — David  Jennings. 

Cornwall — John  Howes,  Robert  Hobbs. 

Winchester — Robert  Brewster. 

Sherbrooke — David  Hardie  ;    Alvah  Adams,  Superannu- 
ated. 
i 

Asahel  Hurlburt, 

Chairman  of  the  District. 

67.  For  reasons,  hereafter  to  be  assigned,  I  reserve  anno- 
tations on  this  district  till  a  future  page,  and  present  the 
stations  of  the  Bytown  District : — 

Bytoum — Kennedy  Creighton. 

Aylmer— William  McGill. 

Richmond— William  Coleman,  Henry  M'Dowell. 

St  Andrew's— Thomas  W.  Constable,  William  Scales. 

L'Orignal — William  Morton,  Andrew  Armstrong, 


206  CASE,   AND 

• 

Cavignall — One  to  be  sent. 

Loekaber — William  Burns. 

Osgood — Wm,  M.  Pattyson.     One  to  be  sent. 

Gatineau — Silas  Huntingdon.  * 

Clarendon  and  Portage-du-Forte — Luther  Houghton.    One 

to  be  sent. 
Westmeath — Richard  Hammond. 
Huntley — Thomas  McMullen. 
Grenville — To  be  supplied. 

Kennedy  Creighton, 

Chairman  of  the  District. 

68.  In  the  above  are  four  supplies  required.  Three  of 
them,  at  least,  we  can  account  for,  and  the  other  may  turn 
up  as  we  pass  on.  Cavignall  was  supplied  by  a  brother 
Wm.  T.  Hewitt,  a  middle-aged,  if  not  elderly  man,  a  native 

of  Yorkshire,  England,  who  had  been  a  zealous  and  useful 
local  preacher,  at  first  in  his  own  country,  and  afterwards  in 
Bytown  and  vicinity.  His  zeal  and  usefulness  suggested  his 
being  employed.  If  I  am  not  much  mistaken  this  is  not  the 
first  vacancy  he  supplied.  He  was  not  a  star  of  the  first 
magnitude,  but  the  star  made  up  in  heat  what  it  wanted  in 
brilliancy. 

69.  The  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Pattyson's  colleague  at  Osgoode 
was  an  Irishman  like  himself,  large,  strong,  and  well-propor- 
tioned, with  dark  hair.  If  converted  in  his  native  country, 
he  had  been  quickened  into  usefulness  in  one  of  the  Canada 
East  Circuits — Huntingdon,  I  think — whence  he  had  been 
brought  up  to  supply  this  vacancy.  In  those  days  his  zeal 
and  activity  compensated  for  the  experience  and  mental  fur- 
niture which  he  had  not  yet  had  time  to  acquire.  He  was 
destined  to  make  a  diligent  student  and  a  painstaking 
laborer.  This  was  the  commencement  of  our  stalwart  friend 
John  A.  Bowler.    He  was  a  student  at  the  Durham  Academy. 

70.  Of  the  second  preacher  at  Clarendon,  if  any,  sent  tc 


HIS  COTEMPORAMES.  207 

the  aid  of  Brother  Luther  Houghton,  we  are  not  informed ; 
but,  fortunately,  we  can  speak  more  definitely  of  Gren- 
ville.  Many  a  first-class  minister  has  been  raised  up  in  the 
pious,  though,  some  would  say,  aristocratic,  St.  James  Street 
society.  Some  time  before  our  present  date,  a  young  man  of 
Scotch-Presbyterian  parents,  Calvinistically  trained,  and 
educated  in  the  first  stages  of  classical  learning,  had  been 
oonverted,  if  not  wrongly  informed,  in  one  of  Mr.  Caughey's 
series  of  revival  services,  and  despite  the  necessary  sacrifice 
of  early  religious  associations,  he  cast  in  his  lot  with  the 
Methodists,  whose  social  meetings  soon  develop  his  speaking 
talents,  which  were  naturally  good ;  and  being  full  of  zeal 
and  unction  from  on  high,  he  began  to  preach  with  a  good 
degree  of  power.  This  led  to  his  employment  on  a  circuit 
in  this  tentative  way,  which  proved  no  vain  experiment. 
All  who  knew  him,  and  he  is  extensively  known,  will  believe 
this  when  T  say,  I  am  writing  of  the  Rev.  James  Roy,  A.M., 
who  has  since  been  city  preacher,  college  professor,  &c.  These 
two  last-named  brethren  were  amongst  the  first  benefits 
accruing  to  the  Canada  "West  section  of  Methodism,  from  its 
union  with  that  of  Canada  East. 

71.  There  were  twenty-eight  vacancies  in  the  Upper 
Province,  and  I  have  accounted  for  nineteen  of  them.  To 
supply  the  remaining  nine  I  have  only  three,  believed  to  have 
travelled  that  year  somewhere  in  that  section  of  the  work. 
These  were:  1st,  David  Gostello,  of  whom  I  know  nothing; 
2nd,  W.  M.  C.  Luke,  whose  early  promise  was  followed  by  a 
mournful  termination;  and  3rd,  excellent  James  Masson,Tvhom 
it  is  strange  I  cannot  locate,  for  I  saw  him  at  the  Book-room 
that  year  on  his  downward  way  to  his  field  of  labor  some. 
where  in  the  lower  part  of  the  Province — early  labors  which 
he  and  I  bo  often  talked  over ;  and  hurry  does  not  now  enable 
me  to  consult  him.  He  was  a  Scotch-Presbyterian  by  birth  and 
««ly  training,  but  lived  till  he  was  twenty-four  or  twenty- 


208  CASE,   AND 

five  years  of  age  before  he  knew  God  experimentally.  He 
lived  on  the  north  of  Dundas  Street,  and  was  induced  to  attend 
revival  services  in  one  of  the  churches  on  the  Nelson  Circuit, 
where  he  and  many  other  young  men  were  converted  to 
God.  He  had  not  been  very  remarkably  favored  with  edu- 
cation before  he  began  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but  he  was, 
like  all  of  his  nationality,  observing,  and  a  considerable 
reader.  His  natural  adaptations  for  the  ministry  were  such, 
that  had  he  not  been  unambitious,  would  have  made  him  a 
more  advanced  man,  forward  as  he  is,  than  he  has  become. 
His  quick  perceptions,  ready  appropriation  of  passing  ideas, 
good  voice,  easy  utterance,  rich  doric  accent,  skill  in  analysis 
and  sermonizing,  calmness  and  self-possession  in  the  pulpit, 
and  ready  elocution,  made  him  the  acceptable  pi-eacher  from 
the  first,  and  in  a  few  years  placed  him  among  the  very  best. 
His  affability  and  communicativeness  with  the  people  made 
him  truly  acceptable  as  a  pastor;  whether  he  taxed  himself 
as  slavishly  as  some  is  not  for  me  to  say.  At  the  time  of  his 
starting,  he  must  have  been  almost  twenty-six  years  of  age, 
and,  though  plain  in  his  appearance,  he  was  agreeable  and 
prepossessing  in  intercourse  with  others.  He  was  a  blonde, 
long-vissaged,  and  above  the  medium  size.  But  whither  did 
he  go  the  first  year"?  I  surmise  to  fill  either  the  vacancy  on 
the  Matilda  Circuit  or  that  on  the  Kemptville,  where  he 
labored  the  following  two  years. 

72.  Another  brother  ought  to  be  mentioned  in  this  cate- 
gory before  we  close.  A  year  or  so  before  this  time,  a  good 
sound  local  preacher  from  England,  via  Prince  Edward's 
Island,  made  himself  known  to  me  in  Hamilton,  inquiring 
for  some  place  to  commence  his  business  of  blacksmithing. 
He  fell  somewhere  within  Brother  Warner's  jurisdiction, 
and  dear  John  Williams  falling  at  his  post  during  this  year, 
this  brother  was  applied  to  to  supply  his  place  on  the  Berlin 
and  Blenheim  Circuit,  and  went.     He  was  so  satisfactory  as 


HIS  COTEMPORARIES.  209 

to  be  received  on  trial  tie  next  year,  and  to  be  continued  in 
the  work  as  a  faithful  laborer  ever  since.  This  was  the 
way  oar  Brother  Richard  Punch  came  to  be  a  travelling 
preacher. 

73.  The  urgent  demand  for  "  copy "  on  the  part  of  my 
printer,  obliged  me  to  close  the  account  relative  to  some 
brethren  before  I  had  received  the  answer  to  my  inquiries 
concerning  them.  The  needed  information  having  arrived,  I 
am  induced  to  put  the  additional  facts  in  a  paragraph  by 
themselves,  arranged  in  alphabetical  order  : — 

(1)  The  data  furnished  by  the  Rev.  Wm,  Hawke,  summar- 
ized, amounts  to  these  items.  He  was  born  in  Lostwithiel, 
Cornwall,  England,  August  21st,  1832,  and  converted  in  the 
same  place,  in  his  eighteenth  year,  under  the  ministry  of  the 
Rev.  Richard  Whiting,  then  a  local  preacher,  with  whom 
and  the  now  deceased  Francis  Chapman,  Mr.  Hawke  met  in 
class.  Being  slow  to  consent,  he  had  only  been  a  local 
preacher  three  years  before  his  coming  to  Canada.  The  rest 
has  been  stated. 

(2)  The  furnished  items  concerning  the  Rev.  George 
Jacques  are  these  :  He  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Froding- 
hara,  Lincolnshire,  England  ;  was  brought  up  in  the  Church 
of  England,  but  remained  without  a  radical  conversion  until 
his  twenty-first  year,  which  occurred  in  the  ordinary  services  of 
theWealeyan  Chapel  in  the  Village  of  Sculthorpe,  in  the  Brigg 
Circuit.  He  began  to  exhort  in  his  own  country,  and  saw  a 
great  revival.  In  1851  he  came  to  Canada  and  settled  in 
Artemesia,  where  he  soon  became  both  an  exhorter  and  after- 
wards a  local  preacher,  and  in  February,'_1854,  was  sent  by 
the  Rev.  Conrad  Vandusen,  then  Chairman  of  the  Owen 
Sound  District,  as  a  supply  to  Durham,  till  the  Conference  of 
that  year,  when  he  was  received  on  trial. 

(3)  The  Rev.  L.  0.  Rice  says  of  his  two  two  years  at 
PwMe,  namely,  1854-55  and  '55-56,  "  I  had  »o  colleague 


210  CASE,    AND 

the  first  year.  The  Chairman  sent  me  one  the  second  year, 
55-56,  George  B.  Johnstone.  He  staid  six  months  and  left. 
Brother  Jacob  Kennedy,  of  Smithville,  supplied  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year.     During  1856-57,  I  had  no  supply." 

(4)  Rev.  George  L.  Richardson,  in  addition  to  what  I  have 
given,  enables  me  more  precisely  to  state  that  he  was  born  in 
Oakhampton,  Devonshire,  removed  with  his  parents  to  St. 
Austle,  Cornwall,  when  four  years  of  age ;  was  converted 
when  thirteen  years  old,  January  1836,  under  the  ministry 
of  Rev.  H.  W.  Williams  (now  Dr.  "Williams),  Secretary  of 
the  British  Conference.  Was  put  on  the  Local  Preachers' 
Plan  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  came  to  Canada  in  the 
summer  of  1853,  to  enter  the  ministry,  and  was  sent  to 
Orittia  by  Dr.  Wood  and  Bev.  J.  Douse,  in  February,  1854, 
till  the  ensuing  Conference ;  when  he  was  received  on 
trial. 

(5)  John  Wesley  Savage  informs  me  that  his  father  was 
connected  with  the  Wesleyan  Ministry  forty  six  years,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  legal  hundred.  J.  W.  himself  began 
to  labor  on  the  plan  as  an  exhorter  in  1848-49,  and  was  a 
local  preacher  in  two  several  circuits  after  that.  He 
came  to  Canada  in  1854,  and  was  sent  to  Warwick.  Says  he 
has  had  camp-meetings  and  revivals  on  all  his  circuits.  Is  in 
the  midst  of  a  revival  now. 

(6)  Wm.  Scales  was  indeed  born  in  "  Lincolnshire,"  not  in 
"  Epworth,"  but  at  Westwoodside,  in  the  Isle  of  Axholme, 
February  13th,  1818.  "Born  again,"  in  1832.  Began  to 
preach  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  was  a  local  preacher  six- 
teen years  and  three  months. 

74.  The  stations  for  Canada  East  were  put  all  together, 
as  for  one  great  district,  but  no  chairman  or  financial 
secretary  was  appointed.  Things  were  puposely  left  in  that 
state  till  after  the  ensuing  British  Conference  should  have 
affirmed  the  whole  proceeding.      I  do  not    give   them  in 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  211 

extenso  now,  but  leave  them  till  after  the  work  in  that  sec- 
tion was  subdivided  into  the  then  several  districts.  I  may 
remark,  however,  at  this  stage,  that  it  was  quite  observable, 
that  a  large  infusion  of  Canada  Conference  men  was  injected 
into  Canada  East.  Thus,  to  particularize,  Montreal  Centre 
received  Rev.  Wellington  Jeffers ;  Quebec,  Rev.  Wm.  Pollard  ; 
St.  Johns,  Rev.  John  Carroll ;  second  preacher  for  Odelltown 
and  Hemmingford,  Rev.  John  S.  Evans  ;  Huntingdon,  Isaac 
Barber ;  and  Russeltown,  Richard   Wilson. 

75.  In  the  Guardian  of  the  13th  of  September,  1854,  the 
following  manifesto  was  put  forth  under  the  sanction  of  the 
Conference  authorities,  which  speaks  for  itself : — 

CANADA    EAST. 

"  The  English  Conference  having  finally  ratified  the  Union 
of  the  Eastern  Canadian  Wesleyan  Missions  with  the  Canada 
West  Conference,  in  May  last  the  brethren  assembled  at 
their  Annual  District  Meeting  recommended  the  division  of 
the  Eastern  Canada  work  into  three  separate  districts.  A 
copy  of  this,  signed  by  the  Rev.  J.  Borland,  Secretary,  having 
received  the  sanction  of  our  Committee  at  the  late  Belleville 
Conference,  it  is  thought  advisable,  for  the  welfare  of  the 
Church  of  God  in  that  part  of  the  Province,  that  this 
arrangement  should  go  into  immediate  operation.  From  this 
date  th«  following  will  be  the  ecclesiastical  relationship  of 
each  minister,  circuit,  and  mission  in  Lower  Canada  for  the 

MONTREAL    CIRCUIT. 

Montreal  Centre — Wellington  Jeffers. 

Do.       Hast— William  Scott. 

Do.       West — James  H.  Bishop. 
Rawdon — Erastus  Hurlburt. 
St.  John's — John  Carroll. 
Chambly — John  Douglass,  Supernumerary. 
Odell  Town — James  Brock, 


212  CASE,   AND 

Hemmingford — John  S.  Evans. 

Odelltown  and  Hemmingford  Circuits  are  worked  together  for  the 

present  year. 
Russelltown — -Richard  Wilson. 
Huntngdon — Isaac  Barber. 

John  Carroll,  Chairman. 

„  QUEBEC   DISTRICT. 

Quebec — "William  Pollard. 
Point  Levi — To  be  supplied. 
Three  Rivers — Charles  De  Wolfe,  A.M. 
Leeds — John  Armstrong. 
Chaudiere — To  be  supplied. 
Melbourne — Malcolm  McDonald. 
Danville — To  be  supplied. 
Sherbroohe — Benjamin  Slight,  A.M. 
Eaton — Robert  Graham. 
Dudswell—To  be  supplied. 

Benjamin  Slight,  A.M.,  Chairman. 

STANSTEAD    DISTRICT. 

Stanstead — John  Tomkins. 

Hatley  and  Compton— John  B.  Selley. 

Coaticoke — John  Pugh. 

Shefford — Gifford  Dorey. 

Granby — Barnabas  Hitchcock. 

These  two  circuits  are  worked  together  for  the  present  year. 
Dunham — Rufus  A.  Flanders,  Samuel  E.  Philips ;  E.  S. 

Ingall,  Supernumerary. 
Sutton — To  be  supplied. 
St.  Armand — James  Norris. 
Clarenceville — Henry  Tomkins. 

John  Tomkins,  Chairman." 
76.  It  will  be  seen,  by  casting  the  eye  over  this  list  of 
stations,  $hat  there  were  four  vacancies  in  tlje  three  di§- 


SIS  CO^EMfORARIES.  2i3 

tricts,  or  rather  in  two,  for  there  were  none  in  the  Montreal 
District — three  of  which  were  in  one  of  them,  and  only  one 
in  the  other.  The  Quebec  District,  in  which  the  three 
vacancies  existed,  obtained  a  supply  for  one  of  them ;  and 
the  other  three  in  those  two  districts,  so  far  as  I  could  learn, 
went .  unsupplied.  Some  portions  of  the  ground  they  em- 
braced no  doubt  continued  to  receive  some  attention  from 
the  minister  of  the  circuit  to  which  they  had  severally 
belonged  previously. 

77.  The  place  supplied  in  the  Quebec  District  was  Point 
Levi.  How,  when,  and  by  whom  will  appear  from  the  fol- 
lowing letter  addressed  to  me  some  years  ago.  The  writer 
of  this  epistle  was  dapper  in  person,  with  dark  hair,  but 
not  dark-skinned.  He  is  now  known  to  many,  from  the 
east  to  the  extreme  west.  The  letter  was  signed  Edward 
Cragg  .— 

"Tybconnel,  April  7th,  1873. 
"Dear  Sir  and  Brother, — As  you  have  no  acquaintance  with 
me,  it  would  perhaps  be  well  to  give  you  an  item  or  two  of  informa- 
tion. I  was  born  in  the  town  of  Kendal,  England,  1829  ;  converted 
to  God  in  1843 ;  commenced  to  call  sinners  to  repentance  in  1851 ;  a 
candidate  for  the  regular  work  of  the  ministry  in  1853,  but  was 
recommended  by  the  Rev.  J.  Eigg,  Chairman  of  the  Macclesfield 
District,  to  join  the  Canada  Conference.  The  agitation  was  then  in 
full  blast  in  England.  Accordingly  I  came  out  in  October,  1854; 
travelled  the  remainder  of  the  year  under  the  chairman,  as  assistant 
to  the  Rev.  W.  Pollard,  in  Quebec.  At  the  Conference  of  1855,  was 
lent  to  the  Chaudiere,  in  1856  to  Dudswell,  but  in  June  of  that  year 
was  requested  by  Dr.  Wood  to  take  the  place  of  a  young  man  who 
had  suddenly  deserted  his  post  at  Millbrook.  Accordingly,  in  the 
depth  of  winter,  I  drove  four  hundred  miles  in  a  jumper  specially 
made  for  the  occasion.     In  1857,  was  requested  for  Newcastle." 

78.  One  of  the  first  matters  that  will  devolve  upon  us 
will  be,  to  follow  the  "  ambassadors  sent  unto  the  heathen," 
tod  to  see  how  they  were  distributed.    The  stations  for  that 


214  CASE,  AND 

• 
north-western  section  of  the  work   (the  Hudson  Bay  and 
Rocky  Mountains  District)  were  as  follows  : — 

Norway  House,  Lake  Winnipeg — Thomas  Hurlburt. 
Oxford  House — Robert  Brooking. 
Lac  La  Pluie — Allen  Salt. 

Edmonton  and  Rocky  Mountains — Henry  Steinhaur.' 
Thomas  Hurlburt, 

Chairman  of  the  District. 

79.  The  missionary  party  consisted  of  four  gentlemen, 
namely,  the  Revs.  John  Ryerson,  Thomas  Hurlburt,  Robert 
Brooking,  and  Allen  Salt.  Four  more  considerable  men  are 
seldom  combined  in  one  enterprise.  Mr.  Ryerson — who  of 
course  was  only  going  for  a  time  as  their  guide,  as  the 
explorer  of  the  country,  and  as  the  diplomatist  (if  any  were 
needed)  with  the  officers  and  agents  of  the  Hudson  Bay 
Company — though  still  a  vigorous  man,  had  been  no  less 
than  thirty -four  years  in  the  itinerant  work  in  Canada,  the 
most  of  the  time  embracing  a  period  when  it  was  no  trifle 
to  be  an  itinerant  preacher,  about  ten  years  of  which  time 
he  had  been  a  travelling  chairman,  or  presiding  elder,  whose 
rounds  of  travel  were  the  most  extensive ;  had  been  a 
regnant  mind  in  the  infant  Conference  during  at  least  three- 
fourths  of  this  time ;  and  up  till  that  date  not  the  least 
breath  of  suspicion  had  been  breathed  against  his  moral 
habits  or  character. 

80.  The  next  member  of  the  missionary  party  was  almost 
as  remarkable  a  man — at  least,  in  his  own  particular  way. 
This  was  Mr.  Hurlburt.  He,  like  his  brother  Ryerson,  was 
one  of  an  old  Canadian  family,  and  one  of  as  large  a  band 
of  preaching  brothers  as'  the  other.  He,  too,  had  been  a 
long  time  in  the  work — since  his  outset,  not  less  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century — and  besides  that,  his  work  had  been 
peculiar  and  trying :  almost  wholly  among  the  Indians, 
varying  from  school-teaching,  at  Grape  Island  and  Muncey- 


HIS  COTEMPORARIES.  2l5 

town,  to  pioneering  along  the  rocky  northern  shores  of  the 
great  lakes ;  to  traversing  a  presiding  elder's  district  across 
mighty  stretches  of  prairie  embraced  within  the  vast  bound- 
aries of  the  "  Indian  Annual  Conference."  He  had  mastered 
the  Chippewa  with  its  dialects,  and  learned  to  hold  verbal 
intercourse  with  the  Cherokees,  Chickasaws,  and  I  know  not 
what  other  tribes,  as  he  was  destined  to  do  among  the  Crees 
and  other  wild  tribes  of  the  far  north-west.  He  was  going 
out  as  the  Superintendent  of  the  isolated  missions  of  that 
region. 

81.  Mr.  Brooking  also  was  scarcely  less  remarkable  in  his 
own  way.  He  was  from  Old  England,  but  he  had  been  a 
missionary  all  his  public  life,  beginning  with  the  coast  and 
interior  of  Western  Africa,  among  savages  of  the  most 
loathsome  and  bloodthirsty  character,  where  he  had  re- 
mained six  years.  His  next  remove  was  to  Canada,  to  be  a 
missionary  among  the  Ojibways  at  Rice  Lake  and  of  St. 
Clair.  Whatever  his  facility  in  acquiring  their  language, 
he  knew  the  habits  and  prejudices  of  untutored  men  to  an 
extent  which  must  have  furnished  him  with  great  facilities 
in  dealing  with  the  savage  mind. 

82.  If  two  of  these  gentlemen  knew  the  aboriginal  mind, 
the  third  was  one  to  whom  that  mind  was  indigenous,  only 
that  it  was  expanded,  elevated,  and  improved  by  Christianity 
and  Christian  civilization.  Perhaps  Mr.  Salt  was  not  the 
least  respectable  and  important  man  among  them — a  gentle- 
man in  whom  all  the  qualities  of  a  commanding  manhood 
united — that  is,  everything  that  relates  to  physical  advan- 
tages, qualities  of   mind,   and   special    adaptation   to   his 

.  appointed  vocation.     But  we  will  hot  repeat  our  sketch  of 
him  on  a  former  page. 

83.  The  missionary  party,  embracing  the  four  gentlemen 
mentioned,  and  Mesdames  Hurlburt,  Brooking,  and  Salt, 
Wth  some  children,  availed  themselves  of  steamboat  navi- 


$16  CASE,    AND 

gation  to  Fort  William,  after  which  they  took  to  smaller 
craft,  and  finally  to  the  inevitable  canoe,  threading  many 
streams,  running  rapids,  crossing  portages,  and  tossing  on 
the  boisterous  inland  lakes.  On  the  way  they  met  with  Sir 
George  Simpson,  the  Governor  of  St.  Rupert's  Land,  on  the 
Savan  River,  on  his  downward  way  to  Montreal,  accom- 
panied by  Mr.  Hopkins,  his  private  secretary.  His  Excel- 
lency informed  them  that  a  house  had  been  provided  for 
Mr.  Salt  and  his  family  at  Lac  La  Pluie  (or  "Rainy  Lake"), 
and  that  the  Honorable  Hudson  Bay  Company  had  granted 
£50  ($200)  per  annum  to  each  of  the  "Wesleyan  Missions  in 
the  Territory. 

84.  Mr.  Salt  was  the  first  one  of  the  missionaries  who 
arrived  at  his  post.  According  to  Sir  George's  promise, 
things  were  found  in  readiness,  so  far  as  temporal  comforts 
were  concerned;  but  the  prospects  of  success  among  the 
Indians  themselves,  at  the  opening  of  his  efforts,  did  not 
seem  to  be  great.  It  was  a  lonely  thing  for  him  and  family 
to  be  set  down  there,  in  a  place  isolated  and  uninviting. 
Messrs.  Hurlburt  and  Brooking,  with  their  wives,  remained 
there  twenty-four  hours,  to  attend  to  some  necessary  matters, 
but  Mr.  Ryerson  went  on.  His  parting  with  his  brother 
Salt  was  very  tender.  He  says  of  him  :  "  As  a  good  man 
and  Christian  minister,  I  very  much  esteem  Mr.  Salt.  He 
grew  daily  in  my  affections  and  confidence  during  the  month 
of  our  journeying  together." 

85.  The  voyageurs  passed  on,  sojourning  some  time  in  the 
Red  River  country,  which  struck  the  observant  eye  of  the 
leader  of  the  party  even  then  as  necessary  to  be  occupied  by 
the  denomination,  in  order  to  an  effectual  prosecution  of  our 
missions  in  the  country. 

86.  Thence  they  trended  away  north-westward,  through 
the  great  Winnipeg  Lake,  into  and  through  Play  Green  Lake) 
thence  up  the  Laoh  River,  twenty-four  miles,  to  the  old 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  217 

establishment  of  Norway  House,  where  they  were  kindly 
received   by    Mr.    Barnston,    the    Hudson  Bay  Company's 
factor.     Two  miles  from  the  fort  was  situated  the  Rossville 
Wesleyan  Mission,  planted  by  the  indefatigable  Jas.  Evans, 
who  had  been  removed  to  his  account.     Amid  the  general 
destitution  that  had  prevailed  among  the  Wesleyan  missions 
of  that  region,  occasioned  by  the  mishaps  and  removal  of 
the  devoted  Barnley,  the  temporary  removal  to  England  and 
death,  while  there,  of  Mr.   Evans,  and  the  return  of  Peter 
Jacobs  to  Canada,  this  mission  had  been  occupied  by  the 
last  surviving,  or  remaining,  European  missionary,  Mr.  Mason, 
and,  therefore,  was  kept  in  repair.     Now  this  one  also  had 
seceded  from  the  enterprise,  and  had  sought  ordination  from 
the  Anglican  Bishop  of  St.  Rupert's  Land,  so  that  the  mis- 
sionary party  came  just  in  time  to  save  the  Wesleyan  mis- 
sions from  extinction.      Mr.  Hwrlburt,  the  chairman  of  this 
missionary  district,  was  placed  at  this  central  mission.      Of 
Ms  situation  Mr.   Ryerson  says  : — "  The  local  situation  of 
the  place  is  remarkably  pleasant,  and  the  land  very  rich  and 
productive.     The  garden  looks  beautiful ;  it  is  large  and  full 
of  the  most  useful  vegetables,  all  of  which  are  in  fine  order 
and  growing  most  luxuriantly.      There  is  also   a  field  of 
potatoes  that  looks  remarkably  well,  so  that  Mr.  Hurlburt , 
instead  of  finding  himself  in  a  waste,  howling  wilderness, 
living  on  pemmican  or  buffalo  tallow,  and  surrounded  with 
savages  and  eaten  up  by  musquitoes,  finds  himself  in  a  most 
comfortable  and  well-furnished  parsonage,  surrounded  with 
not  only  the  necessaries,  but  even  the  luxuries  of  life,  and 
with  a  Christian  society,  far  advanced  in  knowledge  and 
practical  piety.      Indeed,   there   is   no   Indian   mission  in 
Canada  which,  for  pleasantness  of  situation  and  means  of 
domestic  comfort,  will  compare  with  Rossville  Mission." 

87.  Messrs.  Ryerson,  Brooking  (with  his  wife  and  child), 
and  Mr.  Henry  Steinhaur,  a  native  missionary  whom  they 
10 


218  CASE,    AND 

met  by  the*way,  leaving  Rossville  and  pursuing  their  voyage 
northward,  perhaps  bearing  east,  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles 
further,  they  (by  August  the  20th,  1854)  arrived  at  Oxford 
House,  which  was  Mr.  Brooking's  station,  displacing  Mr. 
Steinhaur,  who  was  to  remove  to  Edmonton,  under  the 
Rocky  Mountains. 

88.  Mr.  Brooking,  however,  needing  supplies,  and  Mr. 
Steinhaur  coming  out  to  civilization  for  a  time  to  obtain 
ordination  and  to  assist  in  missionary  anniversaries,  the 
whole  party  accompanied  Mr.  Ryerson  to  York  Factory,  on 
the  shores  of  the  Hudson  Bay,  where  he  and  a  number  from 
the  colony  were  to  sail  by  the  annual  ship  for  England  once 
more. 

89.  After  a  short  sojourn  in  England,  Messrs.  Ryerson 
and  Steinhaur  re-crossed  the  Atlantic  to  Canada,  the  former 
to  resume  his  duties  as  pastor  at  Kingston,  Chairman  of  the 
Kingston  District,  and  to  attend  to  the  many  Connexional 
engagements  which  devolved  upon  him  as  the  President's 
representative  in  a  great  many  cases.  Mr.  Steinhaur  spent 
the  intermediate  time  between  his  return  and  the  ensuing 
Conference  of  1855  (where  he  received  ordination)  in  visit- 
ing his  native  brethren  in  this  Province  and  attending 
various  missionary  anniversaries. 

90.  It  is  fitting  that  a  short  notice  of  this  brother  should 
here  be  given.  He  was  a  thorough  Indian,  of  the  Credit 
band,  and  one' of  the  first  little  boys  in  the  Mission  School 
at  that  place.  On  condition  of  assuming  his  name,  Henry 
Steinhaur,  a  gentleman  in  the  United  States,  had  defrayed 
the  expenses  of  his  education  for  a  number  of  years.  The 
liberal  part  of  it  had  begun,  if  I  mistake  not,  at  either 
Cazenovia,  or  Lima,  New  York,  and  after  the  opening  of 
the  Upper  Canada  Academy,  it  had  been  carried  on  in  that 
institution  till  1840,  at  which  time  the  Rev.  James  Evans 
went  to  the  North-west,  and  Steinhaur,  along  with  Peter 


HIS   C0TEMP0RARIE8.  219 

Jacobs,  was  indueed  to  accompany  him.  In  that  country  he 
married  and  remained,  and  performed  at  least  quasi  mis- 
sionary services  at  various  posts  for  the  long-intervening 
fourteen  years.  He  received  ordination  at  the  London 
Conference  in  1855,  and  accompanied  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Woolsey  to  take  charge  of  the  work  vacated  by  the  Rev. 
William  Rundle  in  the  Saskatchewan  and  Rocky  Mountain 
department  of  it.  Mr.  S.  was  rather  shorter  in  stature 
than  most  of  his  nation,  and  stouter.  He  had  proved  him- 
self enduring  physically,  and  reliable  in  all  respects. 

91.  We  must  now  see  what  report  we  can  make  of  the 
labors  arid  experiences  of  this  important  climacteric  year. 

92.  The  summer  was  improved  by  holding  not.  less  than  a 
dozen  camp-meetings,  ranging  from  one  end  of  the  Upper 
Province  to  the  other,  and  from,  south  to  north  :  the  Brad- 
ford, Owen,  Sound,  Toronto  District,  Guelph  District,  Peel, 
Glwnford,  Dunnville,  Brampton,  and  Napanee  Circuits  gave 
name  to  these  meetings.  Meetings  followed  each  other  in 
rapid  succession,  if  they  were  not  in  full  blast  at  the  same 
time,  covering  the  summer  months  from  early  in  June  till 
late  in  September  ;  and,  if  we  may  judge  from  the  glowing 
accounts  of  them  from  their  promoters  and  lookers  on,  from 
ministers  and  lay  brethren,  they  were  seasons  of  power  and 
delight  while  in  progress,  and  of  lasting  influence  for  good 
after  they  were  over. 

93.  Revivals  in  the  several  circuits,  whether  arising  from 
the  camp-meetings,  promoted  by  special  services  arising  in 
the  ordinary  ministrations  of  the  word,  or  brought  about  by 
some  extraordinary  intervention  of  Providence,  were  of 
repeated  and  widespread  occurrence,  and  of  varied  character 
and  effect,  whether  calm  or  boisterous,  adding  tens  or  adding 
scores  to  the  Church. 

94.  We  are  almost  afraid  to  try  to  particularize  all  the 
places  from  which  good  news  came;  suffice  to  say  there  were 


220  CASE,    AND 

• 

sixty  converts  in  Osgoode,  and  yet  we  hear  from  it  a  second 
time ;  a  powerful  revival  in  Guelph,  twice  heard  from ; 
twenty  conversions  and  more  in  Milton ;  Clarendon  and 
Portage  du  Fort  were  twice  heard  from,  from  which  revival 
correspondence  we  learn  that  Bro.  Houghton  had  a  helper 
the  last  two-thirds  of  the  year,  in  the  person  of  the  young 
Bro.  William  Bradin;  Peel  partakes  largely;  Waterloo, 
Cookstown,  Quebec,  Kemptville,  Sherbrooke,  Storrington,  and 
Belleville,  under  the  successful  George  Young,  are  revived 
and  blessed  ;  the  London  Township  Circuit  receives  forty  at 
a  time ;  fifty  or  sixty  at  Russeltown,  and  revivals  in  Lochaher, 
St.  George,  Consecon,  and  Walsingliam  Circuits.  And  yet 
we  have  not  enumerated  them  all,  much  less  particularized 
their  blessed  details. 

95.  Missionary  meeting  or  anniversary  news,  which  was 
full  and  glowing,  mingled  the  revival  of  the  work  at  home 
with  the  prospect  of  extending  it  abroad,  and  these  came 
from  the  far  east  and  the  far  west,  from  north  and  south, 
from  the  centre  and  the  circumference  of  the  work. 

96.  "We  have  not  recorded  or  noted  all  the  churches  and 
chapels  projected,  finished,  enlarged,  or  opened  in  their 
order,  and  with  minuteness  ;  but  we  know  such  things  were 
rejoiced  over  in  Aurora,  Yorkville,  Ingersoll,  Bunnville,  Mars 
Couche,  Barrie,  London,  Plainville,  King,  Temperance  Mills, 
(fee,  die. 

97.  There  were  matters  miscellaneous  not  without  inter- 
est :  The  Rev.  Dr.  Green  returned  from  England  and  the 
British  Conference  September,  the  16th,  and  gave  a  pleasing 
account  of  his  visit  in  a  series  of  letters  in  the  Guardian. 
A  Christian  Union  Convention,  embracing  a  meeting  of 
converted  Indians  from  various  Protestant  missions,  which 
met  at  Onondagua,  near  Syracuse,  New  York,  was  attended 


HIS   COTEMPOEARIES.  221 

by  Rev.   Peter  Jones,  who  gave   a  cheering  report  of  it 
through  the  Connexional  organ. 

98.  Some  things  were  sober  or  trying,  and  some  were-sad. 
The  Haldimand  and  Four  Corners  Methodists  lost  their  beau- 
tiful church  by  fire — soon,  however,  to  be  restored  again. 
There  were  several  deaths  of  ancient  Canadian  Methodists 
long  identified  with  the  cause,  among  whom  might  be  men- 
tioned James  O'Loan,  Esq.,  one  of  the  first  and  long  a 
Professor  in  our  institution  at  Cobourg. 

99.  An  important  assemblage  of  an  unusual  character  took 
place  during  the  course  of  this  Conference  year,  which  led  to 
material  modifications  of  the  Church's  temporal  economy. 
For  several  years  there  had  been  very  strongly  expressed 
convictions  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  most  enlightened  and 
worthy  laymen  of  the  Church  that  the  disciplinary  allow- 
ances to  the  ministers  and  their  families  were  entirely  too 
small.  But  the  Constitution  of  the  Legislative  Conference 
ever  since  the  organization  of  the  Church  in  1828,  embodied 
the  following  "  restriction,"  that  "  No  new  rule,  or  regula- 
tion, or  alteration  of  any  rule  or  regulation  now  in  force  re- 
specting our  temporal  economy :  such  as  the  building  of 
meeting-houses,  the  order  to  be  observed  therein ;  the  allow- 
ance to  the  ministers  and  preachers,  their  widows  and  chil- 
dren ,  the  raising  of  annual  supplies  for  the  propagation  of 
the  gospel  (the  missions  excepted) ;  for  the  making  up  the 
allowances  of  the  preachers,  (fee,  shall  be  considered  as  of  any 
force  or  authority,  until  such  rule,  regulation,  or  alteration 
shall  have  been  laid  before  the  several  quarterly  Conferences 
throughout  the  whole  Connexion,  and  shall  have  received 
the  consent  and  advice  of  a  majority  of  the  members  (who 
may  be  present  at  the  time  of  laying  such  rule,  regulation, 
or  alteration  before  them)  of  two-thirds  of  the  said  Confer- 
ences. ' 


222  CASE,    AND 

100.  The  utmost  deference  had  been  paid  to  this  require- 
ment in  any  and  all  the  modifications  that  had  been  made 
affecting  the  people's  contributions  and  the  preachers'  pay ; 
but  as  there  were  a  number  of  details  to  be  arranged  which 
would  require  deliberation  and  concert,  it  was  proposed  to 
apply  the  principle  in  a  way  somewhat  new,  that  is,  by  a 
method  resembling  in  some-  measure  "a  joint  committee" 
between  two  branches  of  a  national  legislature.  It  was  de- 
cided to  ask  each  quarterly  meeting  in  the  two  Provinces  to 
elect  a  layman  to  meet  the  Conference  Special  Committee  at 
some  time  and  place  to  be  fixed  by  the  President,  to  take  all 
these  matters  into  consideration.  In  pursuance  of  this  deci- 
sion, the  following  call  was  made  at  the  date  indicated  in 
the  notification  : — 

"  MEETING  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 

' '  The  representatives  of  Circuits  in  Western  and  Eastern  Canada; 
and  the.  Conference  Special  Committee,  will  meet  in  Kingston  (D.  V)., 
in  the  Vestry  of  the  new  Church,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  Octo- 
ber eighteenth,  1854,  according  to  resolution  and  direction  of  Confer- 
ence. 

"ENOCH  WOOD, 

"Toronto,  September  19th,  1854.  "President." 

101.  As  the  time  drew  near,  the  prospect  of  a  meeting  so 
unusual  in  Wesleyan  Methodism,  and  partaking  so  much  of 
the  nature  of  lay-delegation,  awakened  the  solicitudes  of 
those  who  had  always  been  affected,  more  or  less,  with  lay- 
phobia,  if  we  may  coin  a  new  word,  became  uneasy  and  appre- 
hensive ;  nor  were  those  apprehensions  allayed,  but  increased, 
by  the  proceedings  of  a  few  of  a  revolutionary  tendency,  be- 
fore the  meeting  had  properly  settled  to  business,  but  the 
conduct  of  the  great  majority  very  soon  evinced  the  un- 
founded character  of  such  apprehensions.  And  this  meeting 
confirmed  our  experience  of  every  new  extension  of  privilege 
to  the  lay  members  of  the  Church,  whether  in  quarterly 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  223 

meetings  district  meeting,  committee,  or  otherwise,  that  the 
great  majority  of  the  Wesleyan  laity  were  law-abiding,  quiet, 
and  the  very  best  aids  to  the  executive  in  conserving  order 
and  rule,  by  keeping  the  fractious  in  their  places. 

102.  One  hundred  and  two  quarterly  meetings  appointed 
delegates,  fifty- two  of  whom  were  present  at  the  opening  of 
the  meeting,  and  many  came  after.  The  President  assumed 
the  chair,  the  Reverends  Wm.  Case  and  Dr.  Green  led  in 
prayer,  and  a  lay-Secretary  was  appointed  in  the  person  of 
John  Matthewson,  Esq.,  of  Montreal,  along  with  the  Rev. 
I.  B.  Howard,  Secretary  of  the  Conference.  Every  part  of 
the  proceedings  were  of  the  most  orderly  and  business-like 
character,  showing  that  the  experience  of  secular  men  may 
raise  the  character  of  deliberative  proceedings  in  ecclesias- 
tical assemblies. 

103.  We  have  not  room  for  the  Minutes  of  these  delibera- 
tions, but  the  gist  of  their  recommendations  from  the  modifi- 
cations of  our  Connexional  economy  embodied  in  the  regis- 
tered enactments-of  the  ensuing  Conference,  after  submission 
to  the  quarterly  meetings,  which  I  append  in  this  place  in 
the  form  of  a  foot-note.* 

*  Remhed, — That  the  following  scale  of  allowances  recommended  by 
the  Kingston  Delegate  Meeting,  and  submitted  to  the  Quarterly  Meet- 
ings, and  passed  by  them  by  a  much  larger  majority  than  required  by 
the  Discipline,  be  now  adopted  by  the  Conference,  viz. : — 

I.  That  Art.  1st  of  second  SectioD  of  Discipline  be  altered  so  that 
£25  shall  be  read  £35,  and  that  Art.  2nd  as  at  present,  viz.,  £25. 

II.  That  a  preacher's  salary,  after  he  is  received  into  full  connexion 
»nd  ordained,  shall  be  £45  per  annum  while  he  remains  single. 

III.  That  each  child  shall  be  allowed  £7  10s.  per  annum  until  the 
age  of  18 — unless  otherwise  provided  for. 

IV.  That  in  case  of  the  death  of  a  preacher's  wife,  instead  of  the 
provision  for  payment  of  board  for  children,  &c, — that  no  difference 


224  CASE,    AND 

104.  The  missionary  anniversary  of  the  Canada  Confer- 
ence Missionary  Society  was  held  in  connection  with  this 
meeting,  and  the  financial  statement  for  the  Conference  year 
1853-54  was  made.  The  brief  report  of  the  meeting  is  as 
follows  : — 

MISSIONARY    REPORT    FOR    1853-54. 

"  From  the  report  which  has  just  been  published  we  learn 
that  the  amount  contributed  to  the  Wesleyan  Missionary 

shall  be  made  in  the  salary — provided  that  such  preacher  has  a  family 
to  provide  for. 

V.  That  a  fund  be  establisbedforequalizingthe  support  of  preachers' 
children  upon  the  principle  adopted  by  the  English  Conference. 

VI.  Stjpeeannuated  Pkeacheks'  Fund.- — Scale  of  Allowances : — 

CLAIMANTS.  ALLOWANCES. 

Of  15  years £32  , 

16  "  34 

17  "  36 

18  "  38 

19  "   40 

20  "  42 

21  "  .' 44 

22  "  ' 46 

23  "  48 

24  "  50 

25  "  52 

26  "  54 

27  "  -56 

28  "  58 

29  "  60 

30  "  62 

11  to  15  years 32  )  for  4 

8  to  11     "     20|years( 

"Widows  of  15  and  upwards  to  receive  two-thirds  of  husband's  » 
allowance. 

Widows,  10  to  15  years 16 

Under  10  years 12  10 

Rev.  E.  Stoney 36 

"     David  Yeomans   25 

"    John  Harmon 25 

VII.  That  when  the   claims  upon  the  Superannuated  Preacher's 
Fund  for  any  year  shall  be  more  than  the.  income  of  such  year,  each 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  225 

Society,  by  the  various  circuits  and  stations  in  Canada  "West, 
during  the  past  year,  is  £7,539  14s.  4d.,  an  advance  of 
£1,866  14s.  lOJd.  on  the  contributions  of  the  preceding 
year.  The  expenditure  of  the  year  in  carrying  on  the  ex- 
tensive operations  of  the  Society  were,  £6,559  13s.  7d.; 
leaving  a  balance  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer,  last  June, 
with  which  to  commence  the  present  year.  The  extent  and 
state  and  prospects  of  the  work  under  the  superintendence 

claimant  shall  receive  a  percentage  in  proportion  to  his  claim,  to  the 
full  amount  of  the  current  income. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  by  the  Conference  : — 

Resolved, — That  as  a  principle,  it  is  just  and  expedient  that  all  our 
Connexional  Funds,  raised  wholly  or  principally  by  the  exertions  of 
ministers  and  others,  and  the  contributions  of  our  people  at  large, 
should  he  managed  by  mixed  committees,  composed  of  equal  numbers 
of  ministers  and  laymen,  conjointly  ;  so  that  they,  who  by  personal 
services  or  pecuniary  benevolence  have  contributed  to  their  accumula- 
tion, may  have  a  fair  and  equitable  share  in  their  management  and 
distribution. 

The  Conference,  in  accordance  with  this  principle,  piaoesthe  Contin- 
gent Fund,  Chapel  Relief  Fund,  and  the  Fund  for  the  Education  of 
the  Candidates  for  our  Ministry,  under  the  direction  of  Mixed  Com 
mittees. 

Resolved, — That,  instead  of  the  election  of  one  delegate  from  each 
District,  who,  with  the  Chairman  and  lay  members,  now  constitute  the 
Contingent  Fund  Committee,  the  Contingent  Fund  Committee  shall  be 
constituted  as  follows  :— 

The  Conference  shall  elect  fifteen  of  its  number  on  the  first  day  of  its 
session  in  each  year,  who,  with  fifteen  laymen,  chosen  as  directed  in 
the  following  resolution,  shall  hereafter  be  the  "  Contingent  Fund 
Committee." 

Resolved, — That  half  of  the  Contingent  Fund  Committee  which  is  to 
be  composed  of  laymen,  shall  be  annually  chosen  from  the  districts 
most  contiguous  to  the  place  where  the  Conference  shall  be.  The 
selection  of  such  laymen  to  be  made  by  the  Recording  Stewards  and 
Representatives  of  each  district,  at  the  ordinary  district  meeting  in 
May  (at  the  close  of  the  financial  business  to  be  transacted  at  that 
meeting),  from  and  out  of  the  members  nominated  by  the  respective 
10* 


226  CASE,    AND 

of  the  "Wesleyan  Missionary  Society  in  Canada,  are  exhibited 
in  the  following  extract  from  the  interesting  report  of  the 
Committee : 

"  The  Committee  have  great  pleasure  in  stating  that  the 
Auxiliary  Society  in  Canada  last  year  supported  fifteen  In- 
dian missions,  sixty-two  domestic  missions,  twenty-one  mis- 
sionaries to  Indians,  seventy-nine  ministers  on  the  domestic 
missions,  sixteen  day-school  teachers,  six  interpreters,  fifteen 

quarterly  boards  of  such  districts  at  their  fourth  Quarterly  Meeting 
for  the  year. 

Resolved, — That  any  Circuit  which  in  the  past  year  has  received  as- 
sistance from  the  Contingent  Fund  may  or  may  not  obtain  aid  the 
next  year,  as  the  Financial  District  Meeting  may  see  fit,  even  though 
the  said  Circuit  may  or  may  not  have  been  considered  in  the  Contin- 
gent Fund  Committee  assembled  at  the  Conference. 

Resolved, — That  no  deficiencies  brought  from  any  Circuit  be  allowed 
at  the  final  meeting  of  the  Contingent  Fund  Committee,  unless  the 
circuit  has  raised  during  each  quarter  the  average  sum  of  two  shillings 
and  sixpence  currency  per  member,  as  required  by  the  long-established 
rule,  of  each  member  paying  one  penny  sterling  a  week,  and  a  shil- 
ling per  quarter. 

Resolved, — That  no  application  for  grants  to  Circuits  or  special 
claims  be  entertained  by  the  Contingent  Fund  Committee  or  the  Finan- 
cial District  Meeting,  unless  they  have  passed  the  Quarterly  Meet- 
ing, and  have  been  signed  by  the  Circuit  or  Recording  Steward. 

Resolved, — That  it  is  very  desirable  and  expedient  that  as  many  lay 
members  from  each  circuit — one  of  whom  shall  be  Recording  Steward — 
be  authorized  to  attend  the  May  District  Meetings,  and  take  part 
therein  during  the  transaction  of  financial  business — as  there  may  be 
preachers  travelling  on  the  same  circuit. 

DIVISION   OF   CIRCUITS. 

Resolved, — That  no  circuits  supporting  their  own  preachers  shall  be 
divided  till  such  divisions  have  been  approved  of  by  their  respective 
Quarterly  Meetings,  and  their  approval  signified  in  writing  by  the  Re- 
cording Steward,  or  otherwise  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  May  District 
Meeting  at  the  time  when  the  lay  representatives  are  present. 

Resolved, — That  we  are.  of  opinion  that  provision  should  be  made  for 
the  education,  at  Victoria  College,  free  of  expense  for  board  and  tui- 
tion, of  young  men  intended  for  the  ministry  who  may  be  recommended 


his  cotemporariils.  227 

day-schools,  two  of  which  are  largely  industrial ;  and  that 
there  are  on  the  different  missions  10,624  members  of  the 
Church,  1,142  of  that  number  Indians;  and  that  the  in- 
crease during  the  year  is  1,330  members.  Such  are  the  re- 
sults, under  the  blessing  of  the  divine  Spirit,  of  the  applica- 
tion of  the  truths  the  Society's  agents  inculcate,  and  of  the 
uniformity  on  all  the  missions  of  their  instructions.  An  un- 
lettered Namacqua  forcibly  said  on  a  Wesleyan  Missionary 
occasion   in    Africa,    "All   our   teachers  preach   the    same 

by  the  Quarterly  and  District  Meetings — and  that  a  fund  for  this  pur- 
pose he  created  and  sustained  hy  annual  collections  and  donations. 

Resolved, — That  in  view  of  the  important  and  widely  extended  edu- 
cational interests  with  which  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  in 
Canada  is  identified,  a  Committee  of  lay  members  of  the  Church  from 
different  parts  of  the  Province  should  annually  be  named  by  the  Presi- 
dent and  Executive  Committee  of  the  Conference^such  Committee 
when  appointed  to  co-operate  with  the  Board  of  Victoria  College,  and 
in  all  other  suitable  ways  to  further  the  interests  of  education  in  con- 
nection with  the  College  and  other  educational  institutions  of  the 
Church. 

Resolved, — That  this  Conference  appoint  a  Select  Committee  to  revise 
the  present  Book  of  Discipline,  so  as  to  provide  for  the  renting  of  pews 
in  our  churches,  and  otherwise  to  adapt  it  to  the  wants  and  require- 
ments of  Canadian  Methodism. 

Resolved, — That  this  Conference  alter  the  first  clause  of  answer  first 
of  the  5th  section  of  the  Discipline,  and  that  every  Circuit  be  required 
to  furnish  the  house  or  houses  of  their  married  preachers  :  and  that,  in 
order  to  enable  circuits  to  do  this,  an  appropriation,  shall  be  made 
out  of  the  amount  reserved  of  the  Contingent  Fund  for  extraordinaries, 
of  such  sum  as  the  Contingent  Fund  Committee  may  think  expedient. 

Resolved, — That  the  Committee  of  Estimates  appointed  by  a  Quar- 
terly Meeting,  shall  report  to  the  Quarterly  Meeting  so  appointing. 

Resolved, — That  the  resolutions  of  the  Kingston  Delegate  Meeting, 
relative  to  the  Constitution  of  the  Missionary  Society,  be  referred  to 
the  Book  Committee  for  careful  revision,  and  for  the  purpose  of  adopt- 
ing, as' far  as  its  relation  to  the  Parent  Missionary  Society  will  allow, 
the  principle  on  which  the  Committees  of  other  funds  of  this  Confer- 
enae  are  constituted. 


228  CASE,    AND 

gospel ;  yes,  though  there  are  many  teachers,  the  word  is  the 
same,  the  school  is  the  same.' " 

105.  The  newly  incorporated  work  in  Canada  East  was 
prosecuted  much  in  the  same  manner  as  in  other  parts  of  the 
Connexion,  and  with  no  observable  friction  in  any  place,  or 
department,  excepting  at  the  head  of  this  humble  historian's 
own  district,  the  City  of  Montreal.  It  is  a  matter  that  can- 
not be  ignored,  besides  its  teaching  its  own  historic  lessons, 
but  as  it  resulted  in  my  first  and  only  Connexional  censure 
and  humiliation,  I  must  treat  it  with  all  the  candor  of  one 
bound  to  sink  self  in  Connexional  interests,  and  the  man  in 
the  historian.     Withal  our  space  obliges  us  to  be  concise. 

106.  The  two  suburban  Wesleyan  Churches  in  Montreal 
had  been  built  by  the  Central  Board  of  Trustees,  and  their 
ministrations  Lad  been  sustained  by  general  circuit  funds 
common  to  the  city  circuit.  Furthermore,  although  they 
had  stood  in  the  Minutes  for  several  years  in  the  form  of 
separate  charges,  (and  perhaps  were,  so  far  as  pastoral  atten- 
tion was  concerned),  by  the  names  of  Montreal  Centre,  Mon- 
treal West,  and  Montreal  Hast,  yet  there  had  always  been  a 
regular  and  systematic  exchange  of  pulpits  among  the  minis- 
ters. At  the  last  District  Meeting  under  the  old  regime — the 
one  in  May,  1854 — there  had  been  an  attempt  made,  indeed 
it  was  decided,  that  this  separation  of  circuits  should  be  real 
as  well  as  apparent,  and  their  provisional  stations  were  made 
with  that  view.  To  this,  all  the  members  in  both  the  East 
and  West  Circuits  were  opposed,  and  a  number  of  official 
members  who  worshipped  in  the  Central  church  as  well,  and 
they  objected  to  its  going  into  effect,  and  their  objections 
were  based  on  the  following  grounds  :  the  District  Meeting, 
like  all  Missionary  Districts,  was  a  purely  clerical  body,  and 
the  request  for  the  dismemberment  had  not  received  the  con- 
sent of  the  City  Quarterly  Meeting,  which  they  claimed  was 
necessary  to  make  it  constitutional.     But  the  sole  Board  of 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  229 

Trustees,  whose  funds  were  ample,  were  determined  to 
end  the  dependence,  and  do  away  with  the  presence  of  the 
extremities  in  their  circuit  meetings.  They  were  willing  to 
vote  them  a  donation  from  time  to  time,  they  would  see 
that  then-  church  edifices  should  be  kept  in  repair  and  kept 
afloat,  but  they  would  have  no  intermingling  of  funds  or  of 
ecclesiastical  business. 

107.  After  the  new  antonomy  for  the  Montreal  District 
was  fairly  launched,  both  parties  made  their  appeal  to  the 
President  of  the  Conference  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Church  in  Canada.  Early  in  the  winter  of  1854-55,  the 
President  and  Secretary  of  the  Conference  and  a  large  repre- 
sentation of  the  Conference  Special  Committee,  including 
several  respectable  brethren  long  connected  with  Canada 
Eastern  affairs,  met  all  the  office-bearers,  of  all  grades  and 
kinds,  belonging  to  all  the  charges  in  the  city,  together  with  all 
the  ministers  stationed  in  the  city,  in  a  vestry  of  Great  St. 
James  Street  Chureh,  and  the  whole  matter  was  gone  over 
in  a  conversational  way.  The  first  business  was  to  see  how 
the  matter  had  arisen ;  under  which  head  the  several  parties 
did  not  agree  as  to  all  the  antecedents  of  the  matter.  Next, 
the  preferences  and  wishes  of  every  brother  was  inquired  into. 
These  inquiries  elicited  two  inevitable  conclusions  :  first, 
that  the  whole  affair  was  extraordinary,  according  to 
Canada  Conference  usages,  and  must  be  disposed  of  by  a 
somewhat  extra-judicial  process ;  secondly,  if  it  went  by  the 
number  of  votes,  a  considerable  majority  of  the  official  mem- 
bers of  the  city  were  opposed  to  the  dismemberment  of  the 
Original  circuit,  but  if  weight  was  to  be  attached  to  the  amount 
likely  to  be  contributed  in  carrying  on  the  work,  then  dis- 
memberment had  the  preponderating  influence.  There  was 
much  sympathy  felt  for  those  who  clung  to  their  old  united 
relation,  and  I  must  confess  to  feeling  at  the  time  disposed 
to  do  something  to  meet  their  wishes ;  upon  the  whole,  how- 


230  CASH,    AND 

ever,  it  was  decided -by  the  Conference  Committee,  'that  the' 
decision  of  the  district  meeting  which  had  been  acted,  on  by 
the  Stationing  Committee,  and  lastly,  by  the  President  in  his 
final  act  in  dividing  the  work  into  three  districts  and  appoints 
ing  chairmen,  should  remain  undisturbed — that  there  should^ 
be  three  circuits. 

108.  Soon  after  my  return  to  my  station  at  St.  John's,  I 
received  official  information  from  the  pastor  of  Montreal 
West,  the  Rev.  Wm.  Scott  (now  President  of  the  Montreal  ' 
Annual  Conference),  that  all  the  official  members  in  the  two 
suburban  circuits  had  resigned  their  offices,  and  that  unless 
something  could  be  done  to  induce  them  to  reconsider  their 
resignation,  the  circuits  would  be  so  crippled  that  it  would  be 
hard  to  sustain  the  cause  ;  furthermore  suggesting  ja  plan,  - 
involving  a  sort  of  compromise,  which  would  save  the  pride 
and,  in  some  measure,  meet  the  feelings  of  the  malcontents, 
and  preserve  them  to  the  Church,  till  some  final  arrangement 
could  be  made  by  Connexional  authority  at  the  next  district 
meeting  and  Conference.  I  consented  to  go  and  meet 
them.  All  concerned  were  assembled  in  a  vestry  of 
the  Griffintown  Church.  The  two  ministers  of  the  east 
and  west  were  present  of  course,  and  the  Rev.  James 
Brock,  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  influential  ministers  con- 
nected with  that  section  of  the  work,  gave  us  his  presence 
and  counsel,  upon  request.  The  minister  of  the  Central 
Church,  the  Rev.  W.  Jeffers,  perhaps  wisely,  was  not  present. 
It  would  be  idle  to  detail  all  that  was  said  by  angry  men,  or 
all  that  was  advanced  to  pacify  them.  Suffice  to  give  the 
agreement  that  was  come  to,  which  was  this :  that  the  two 
suburban  churches  should  be  worked  as  one  circuit  for  thft 
balance  of  the  year.  The  Rev.  J.  H.  Bishop,  in  charge  oftfci' 
east,  voluntarily  surrendered  his  superintendency  to  Mr. 
Scott,  who  was  to  be  in  charge  of  the  whole;  there  should  be  a 
common  plan,  a  rotation  in  the  pulpits,'  and,  I  think,  "  a  share 


HIS   COTEMPORAKIES.  231 

and  share  alike  "  in  the  funds,  which  it  was  thought  would 
l>e  improved  by  the  people  being  pleased  by  interchange  and 
combined  action.  Upon  this  arrangement  being  agreed  to, 
all  the  leaders  took  up  their  class-books,  and  every  other 
office-bearer  resumed  his  portfolio ;  and  the  thought  was  now 
that  they  would  never  ask  to  go  back  to  the  Centre,  as  they 
had  found  the  true  solution  of  city  matters,  at  least  for  the 
near  future. 

109.  This  was  no  doubt  a  bold  measure  on  my  part,  and  it 
was  only  resorted  to  for  the  following  reasons  :  (1)  The  forci- 
ble dismemberment  of  a  people  who  refused  to  be  separated 
seemed  a  measure  somewhat  hard ;  (2)  The  carrying  of  it 
through  was  effected  by  means  of  extra-judicial,  the  Confer- 
ence Special  Committee  having  no  definite  powers,  indeed, 
was  not  then  known  in  the  letter  of  discipline  ;  (3)  Our 
arrangement  was  no  infraction  of  the  arrangement  made  by 
the  committee,  but  a  provisional  one  to  meet  an  emergency 
which  had  arisen  subsequently  ;  and  (4)  Such  provisional 
arrangements  I  had  known  chairmen  or  presiding  elders  to 
make  years  before,  a  notable  one  of  which  I  had  in  my  recol- 
lection as  having  taken  place  in  the  winter  of  1832-33,  re- 
lating to  the  Bytown  and  Hull  Circuits. 

110.  Lest  what  I  had  done  should  appear  as  in  contempt 
of  authority,  I  wrote  a  full  account  of  the  emergency  and 
the  arrangement  to  the  President,  and  hoped  I  might  "  receive 
a  bill  of  indemnity,"  in  view  of  the  evil  I  had  staved  off. 
With  Ids  usual  caution,  he  made  no  explicit  avowal  of  opin- 
ion, although  he  thought  it  "a  grave  matter."  Sometime 
after  I  received  a  set  of  resolutions  passed  by  such  of  the 
Special  Committee  as  were  at  hand,  if  not  censuring  me,  re- 
pudiating my  action.  Still,  I  believe  my  arrangement  would 
not  have  been  disturbed  till  the  end  of  the  year,  had  not  certain 
leading  lay  influences  in  the  Centre  written  to  the  Connexional 
authorities  on  the  subject.     This  I  thought  they  might  have 


232  CASE,    AND 

omitted,  as  they  were  now  in  no  wise  interfered  with  or 
troubled  by  the  brethren  of  the  extremities.  Yet  they 
saw  proper  to  invoke  Connexional  authority  to  disturb  an 
arrangement  in  which  they  were  not  immediately  concerned. 
Perhaps,  as  they  were  directly  appealed  to,  the  authorities 
thought  they  were  bound  by  the  first  arrangement  to  see  it 
carried  out.  The  co-Delegate  came  down,  summoned  me  to 
Montreal,  and  required  me  to  undo  what  I  had  done.  This 
I  declined,  on  the  ground  of  the  extraordinary  circumstances 
which  I  thought  justified  the  measure,  and  because  I  would 
not  stultify  myself.  Bearing  the  President's  authority,  he 
proceeds  to  do  it  himself.  My  arrangement  was  disallowed, 
and  the  two  ministers  were  to  keep  the  circuits  to  which  they 
had  been  originally  appointed. 

111.  The  results  were,  as  I  had  feared,  the  recalcitrant 
officials  withdrew  from  the  Church  altogether,  and  with  them 
about  seventy  members  out  of  the  two  charges  (which  had 
but  a  small  membership  at  best),  and  these  among  the  most 
gifted  and  active  ones.  The  consequences  were  that  these 
two  places  had  to  be  sustained  several  years  by  an  amount 
of  Connexional  aid  which,  in  the  other  case,  might  have  been 
saved.  Wise  and  weighty  ministers  who  succeeded,  volun- 
tarily expressed  their  sorrow  that  my  arrangement  had  to  be 
broken  up,  as  it  was  just  the  expedient  for  the  emergency, 
and  the  opposite  course  resulted  in  the  calling  in  of  another 
body,  and  the  establishment  of  a  cause  inevitably  rival  to 
ours.  Happily,  the  great  comprehension  of  1874  has  come 
and  remedied  all  that. 

112.  There  are  many  things  to  be  learned  by  occurrences 
of  the  above  kind ;  such  as  that  none  of  us  should  be  too  hot 
and  positive,  and  we  should  be  careful  of  being  too  exacting 
to  our  erring  brethren,  especially,  as  in  this  case,  when  there 
is  no  express  law  or  precedent  to  guide  us.  The  brethren 
of  the  extremities,  perhaps,  made  too  much  of  their  grievances; 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  233 

the  central  brethren  may  have  let  them  alone,  when  once 
they  were  dismembered  from  them,  although  their  dis- 
memberment did  not  take  the  shape  they  had  expected  ; 
and  perhaps  I  expressed  my  indignation  too  warmly  for 
having  been  censured  for  a  measure  which  I  had  no 
chance  of  verbally  explaining  to  those  who  registered  the 
censure. 

113.  As  it  was  I  was  punished  sufficiently,  being,  by  the 
counsel  of  the  Advisory  Committee,  left  out  of  the  office  they 
supposed  I  had  mismanaged,  and  a  junior  placed  over  me ; 
albeit,  as  a  matter  of  favor,  I  was  allowed  at  the  last  meet- 
ing  of  the  Stationing  Committee  to  exchange  into  another 
district,  where  my  humiliation  was  not  so  much  felt.  After 
a  year  my  former  status  was  regained,  and  after  several  years 
I,  perhaps,  received  some  measure  of  the  confidence  again, 
accorded  to  me  before.  My  falling  so  directly  into  the 
current  of  inevitable  events  must  plead  my  excuse  of  nearly 
the  only  bit  of  egotism  I  have  perpetrated  in  the  five  vol- 
umes I  have  issued. 

114.  At  the  Legislature  which  sat  during  the  year  1854, 
a  Reform  Government  being  then  in  power,  a  Bill  was 
brought  in  for  the  secularization  of  the  Clergy  Reserves. 
The  lay  Wesleyans  attending  the  Convention  at  Kingston 
availed  themselves  of  the  opportunity  to  hold  a  meeting  by 
themselves  on  the  subject,  and  passed  a  series  of  resolutions  . 
approving  of  their  alienation  from  all  religious  purposes,  and 
recommended  the  ministry  of  the  Church  to  decline  the 
reception  of  any  part  of  their  avails  for  any  denominational 
purpose,  and  pledging  the  laity  of  the  Church  to  indemnify 
the  funds  of  the  Church  for  any  loss  which  might  result  from 
such  a  declinature;  and  all  the  lay  brethren  who  were  still  at 
the  meeting,  subscribed  to  the  declaration,  and  the  resolutions 
and  names  were  published  in  the  Guardian.  I  had  at 
first  thought  to  give  them  in  extenso,  but,  from  economy  of 


234:  CASE,    AND 

space,  conclude  to  dispose  of  the  subject  with  this  briefer 
allusion. 

115.  We  are  in  the  midst  of  the  last  Conference  year  of 
the  venerable  Case,  whose  public  life  we  have  made  the 
thread  by  which  we  have  connected  his  fellow-itinerants  in 
these  Provinces,  during  his  own  times,  together.  We  have 
already  told  how  he  spent  this  year,  as  well  as  the  last,  in 
public  Connexional  engagements,  and  we  are  glad  that  we 
have  the  means  of  giving  his  occupations,  views,  and  feel- 
ings in  a  letter  to  one  of  his  coevals  and  fellow-laborers 
of  an  early  day.     It  will  speak  for  itself  : — 

116.  "  Alnwick,  March  16,  1855. 
"Dr.  Bangs  :     Rev.    and   Dear   Brother, — "What    scenes   and 

changes  have  passed  in  review  since  we  commenced  our  ministry  ! 
Most  of  our  early  associates  in  the  ministry  in  this  country  have 
passed  triumphantly  to  their  great  reward ;  yet  the  Church  is  sup- 
plied abundantly  and  ably.  The  membership,  too,  have  increased 
from  scores  to  hundreds  and  thousands. 

317.  "Once  we  addressed  the  few  in  private  dwellings;  larger 
assemblies  were  congregated  in  barns,  for  churches  were  '  few  and  far 
between.'  We  now  preach  to  thousands  ;  churches  have  arisen,  large 
and  numerous,  in  our  cities,  towns,  and  circuits  !  Brother,  after  more 
than  half  a  century  of  toil,  you,  perhaps,  are  scarcely  able  to  visit 
the  scenes  of  your  former  labors.  Would  it  not  be  delightful  to  do 
so  1  Your  appearance  among  the  descendants  of  your  early  Christian 
friends  would  fill  them  with  delight  ;  and  could  you  not  do  more  for 
God  and  the  Church  by  travelling  at  large  than  by  treading  a  thousand 
times  the  streets  of  a  city  ?  Your  experience  in  the  things  of  God, 
your  counsel  in  the  interests  of  the  Church,  would  have  its  influence 
favorably  in  the  closing  scene  of  so  lengthened  a  ministerial  course. 
Could  you  not  again  visit  Canada,  the  land  of  your  youth,  of  your 
conversion  to  God,  your  early  ministry,  and  of  the  mission  field  you 
have  aided  to  cultivate  1  The  railroad  would  bring  you  to  Kingston, 
or  to  Hamilton,  in  a  few  hours.  Once  we  toiled  on  horseback  through 
wild  forests  from  two-and-a-half  to  four  miles  an  hour  ;  now,  forty 
miles  is  the  speed  we  move  !  Brother,  try  it  before  leaving  for  the 
'  fairer  climes. '     Sickness  prevented,  last  season,  your  meeting  your 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  235 

appointment  in  Toronto.  Perhaps  you  may  be  with  us  at  our  Confer- 
ence in  London,  the  first  Wednesday  in  June.  The  two  or  three 
hundreds  of  Canada  preachers  would  he  happy  to  meet  you  there. 

118.  "  During  the  winter  just  passing  I  have  enjoyed  the  unspeak- 
able pleasure  of  visiting  the  scenes  of  our  early  labors  (yours  and 
mine).  I  passed  through  Hallowell,  Belleville,  Kingston,  Elizabeth- 
town,  Brockville,  Augusta,  Matilda,  and  thence  to  Bytown  (Ottawa 
City);  thence  to  Perth  and  Wolford,  on  the  Bideau  ;  then  home, 
through  a  portion  of  the  northern  new  settlements.  In  this  route  I 
found  some,  though  few,  of  our  former  religious  friends  now  living. 
Arthur  Youmans,  Bufus  Shorey,  Mrs.  McLean  (formerly  Widow 
Coate),  and  William  Brown  are  yet  living,  at  the  ages  of  from  eighty 
to  ninety-one.  Youmans,  at  the  latter  age,  was  one  of  the  members 
of  the  first  class  formed  in  Hallowell,  January,  1793,  by  Darius  Dun- 
ham. A  class  paper  of  the  same  class  was  written  by  Elijah  Woolsey 
in  1795.  But  the  parents  of  the  Johnsons,  Congers,  Vandusens, 
Roblins,  Germans,  Huffs,  Emburys,  Detlors,  Clarkes,  Parrots,  Mad- 
dens, Keelers,  Colemans,  Hecks,  Coons,  Brouses,  Aults,  Dulmages, 
Lawrences  are  all  gone  ;  yet  they  live  in  the  example,  of  piety, 
integrity,  hospitality,  and  Christian  benevolence.  These  virtues  are 
prominent  to  a  great  extent  in  their  numerous  descendants.  The 
progeny  bears  a  striking  impress  of  their  worthy  patriarchal  fathers. 

119.  "  You  will  remember  the  names  of  Samuel  and  Jacob  Heck, 
of  Augusta,  and  the  Emburys,  of  Bay  of  Quinte — the  former  the  sons 
of  Paul  Heck  and  his  worthy  companion,  the  parents  of  Methodism  in 
the  City  of  New  York  and  in  America.  The  parents  are  gone,  and 
the  sons  have  followed  them  in  the  way  of  holiness  to  glory  ;  but  a 
numerous  train  of  grandchildren  are  pursuing  the  Christian  course 
'their  fathers  trod' — intelligent,  pious,  and  wealthy.  'Blessed  are 
the  meek,  for  they  shall  inherit  the  earth.'  A  few  years  since  I- visited 
John  Embury  and  his  worthy  companion.  "  He  was  then  ninety-eight 
years  old.  The  scenes  of  early  Methodism  in  New  York  were  revived 
in  his  recollections,  and  he  referred  to  them  as  readily  as  if  they  had 
recently  occurred.  He  said  :  '  My  uncle,  Philip  Embury,  was  a  great 
man— a  powerful  preacher— a  very  powerful  preacher.  I  had  heard 
many  ministers  before,  but  nothing  reached  my  heart  till  I  heard  my 
Uncle  Philip  preach.  I  was  then  about  sixteen.  Tne  Lord  has  since 
been  my  trust  and  portion.  I  am  now  ninety-eight. — Yes,  my  Uncle 
Philip  was  a  great  preacher.'  After  this  interview  he  lived  about  a 
year,  and  died  suddenly,  as  he  arose  from  prayer  in  his  family,  at  the 


236  CASE,    AND 

age  of  ninety-iflne.  The  Emburys,  Detlors,  Millers,  Maddens,  Switz- 
ers,  of  Bay  of  Quinte,  are  numerous  and  pious,  and  some  of  them  minis- 
ters of  the  gospel — all  firmly  grounded  in  Methodism.  Their  Palatine 
origin  is  prominent  in  their  health,  integrity,  and  industry,  and  their 
steadfast  piety  by  Irish  training  on  Mr.  Wesley's  knee.  Old  Mrs. 
Detlor  forty  years  ago  told  me,  '  "When  a  child  in  Ireland,  Mr.  Wesley 
took  me  on  his  knee,  when  I  sang  for  him  : — 

"  '  Children  of  the  Heavenly  King, 
As  we  journey  let  us  sing.' 

120.  "You  will  remember  the  Rev.  William  Brown,  of  Wolford, 
River  Rideau.  He  was  once,  as  you  know,  one  of  our  most  efficient 
and  talented  travelling  ministers.  He  is  now  eighty-six.  A  few 
weeks  since  I  spent  a  Sabbath  at  his  house.  He  is  yet  vigorous  in 
mind,  his  voice  pretty  ckar  and  full.  He  took  part  in  the  exercises 
of  the  quarterly  meeting,  opened  the  love-feast,  and  addressed  the 
congregation  at  the  close  of  the  sermon.  He  spoke  of  the  early  min- 
isters and  the  piety  of  our  steadfast  saints  who  had  gone  to  glory,  and 
seemed  animated  with  the  prospect  of  soon  joining  them  in  the  song 
of  redemption.  I  should  not  close  without  referring  to  the  extent 
and  success  of  our  Indian  missions,  in  which  you  took  an  early  and 
deeply-interested  part,  but  have  at  present  only  to  say  that  they  are 
still  in  progress,  and  have  extended  a  thousand  miles  north  into  the 
Hudson  Bay  Territory.  You  will,  perhaps,  remember  two  of  the  Indian 
boys  with  us  in  New  York,  viz. ,  Henry  Steinhaur  and  Allen  Salt. 
The  former  has  lately  returned,  after  an  absence  in  that  country  (the 
Hudson  Bay)  of  fourteen  years.  While  in  that  country  he  has  labored 
as  a  school-teacher,  minister  of  the  gospel,  translator,  and  printer. 
He  has  translated  the  New  Testament  into  the  Cree  language,  a  dialect 
of  the  Ojibway,  and  printed  the  Gospel  of  John,  as  also  a  hymn-hook, 
in  that  country.  He  has  brought  with  him  portions  of  his  printed 
translations.  His  addresses  at  our  numerous  missionary  meetings 
created  a  great  and  lively  sensation.  Allen  is  now,  also,  laboring  in 
that  country,  being  ordained  to  the  ministry.  How  little  we  thought, 
when  those  little  boys  were  delighting  the  congregations  with  their 
musical  voices — lately  converted  in  the  woods  of  Canada — that  they 
would  extend  the  mission  of  Christianity  to  their  pagan  people  thou- 
sands of  miles  into  the  wilderness.  Henry  continues  with  us  till  about 
the  last  of  May,  when  he  will  leave  again  for  that  country,  and  begin 


HIS   COTEMPORARIES.  237 

a  new  mission  one  thousand  miles  west  of  his  former  station,  near  the 
Bocky  Mountains. 
"  With  Christian  respects  to  Sister  Bangs  and  your  family, 

"Yours,  W.  Case." 

121.  Before  we  conduct  the  reader  to  the  last  Conference 
Mr.  Case  attended,  and  the  one  at  which  he,  at  the  request 
of  his  brethren,  preached  his  notable  jubilee  sermon,  it  will 
be  well  for  us  to  inquire  what  had  been  the  results  of  that 
year  of  activity  and  what  were  the  state  of  the  members  in 
society  in  1855.  From  the  incorporation  of  so  many  differ- 
ent elements,  it  was  hard  to  say  what  had  been  the  gains  of 
1854-55 ;  but  the  membership  at  the  Conference  of  1855 
stood  at  the  goodly  aggregation  of  39,015  (of  which  1,068 
were  Indians),  which  was  larger  by  6,651  than  the  total  set 
down  to  the  Canada  Conference  one  year  before. 

1855. 

THE  BALANCE  OF  THE  YEAR,  AND  THE  DEATH  OP  CASE. 

122.  The  Conference  of  1855  was  a  time  of  deep  depres- 
sion to  this  humble  chronicler,  and  one  the  remembrance  of 
which  awakens  thoughts  disagreeable  to  the  mind.  Yet  it 
was  a  glorious  one  in  itself,  and  the  occasion  of  jubilation 
to  his  brethren ;  and  he  intends  endeavoring  to  write  of  it 
in  the  spirit  which  becomes  the  theme. 

123.  It  was  convoked  in  one  of  the  most  pleasant,  grow- 
ing cities  in  the  richest  part  (agriculturally)  of  our  best 
grain-producing  colony — that  is  to  say,  in  London,  Canada 
West,  a  place  strong  in  Methodism,  as  in  every  other  branch 
of  Protestantism,  and  where  the  assembled  itinerants  from 
Gaspe  to  the  upper  lakes — yea,  we  might  add  (for  Woolsey 
and  Steinhaur  were  there),  to  the  Rocky  Mountains — were 
there,  or  their  representatives,  and  were  treated  to  a  princely 
hospitality. 


238  CASE,    AND 

124.  It  met  in  the  most  genial  month  of  the  year,  its 
sessions  extending  from  the  6th  to  the  14th  of  June,  and 
the  weather  was  fine  for  the  time  of  year. 

125.  Its  managing  authorities  were  representative  of  the 
many  interests  involved.  The  Rev.  Enoch  Wood  (afterwards 
D.D.),  an  Englishman,  a  member  of  the  British  Conference 
constructively,  who  embodied  twenty-nine  years  of  foreign 
labor,  President ;  the  Rev.  John  Ryerson,  who  might  be 
taken  as  the  representative  of  the  old  Canadian  graft-stalk, 
co-Delegate,  or  Vice-President,  was  there  in  memory,  though 
absent  in  the  North ;  and  Samuel  Dwight  Rice,  also  a  pro- 
spective D.D.,  a  sort  of  representative  of  every  possible 
interest,  element,  and  nationality  in  the  body,  was  chosen 
Secretary.  Then,  also,  the  Conference  was  favored  with  the 
presence  of  the  Rev.  James  Beecham,  one  of  the  General 
Missionary  Secretaries.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Richey  also  was  there 
as  a  visitor  from  a  branch  of  Wesleyan  Methodism  in  the 
Eastern  Provinces.  Besides  whom,  no  less  than  seven  min- 
isterial brethren  from  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
the  United  States — unoflicially,  but  in  a  friendly  manner — 
visited  the  Conference,  mingled  with  its  members,  and 
received  a  most  cordial  reception  from  each  individual  and 
from  the  Conference  collectively.  These  were  the  Rev. 
Messrs.  Collins,  Pervine,  Hickey  (Detroit),  and  Jacobs,  of 
the  Michigan  Annual  Conference,  and  the  Rev.  Messrs. 
Fuller,  De  Puy,  and  Robie  (editor  of  the  Buffalo  Christian 
Advocate),  of  the  old  Genesee  Conference,  with  which  the 
Canada  work  once  stood  connected.  But  last,  not  least,  the 
apostolic  Case  himself,  without  title  or  office,  stood  there  as 
the  hero  of  a  thousand  battles  and  the  toil-worn  laborer  of 
half  a  century. 

126.  Just  fifty  years  before  he  had  crossed  the  St.  Law- 
rence to  Kingston  in  a  ferry,  his  horse  and  saddle-bags,  with 


HIS    C0TEMP0RAR1ES.  239 

their  contents,  his  sole  possession.  How  truly  might  he  not 
have  sung  : — 

"  With  ray  pastoral  crook 
I  went  over  this  brook, 
And,  lo  !   I  am  spread  into  bands." 

Then  there  were  eight  circuits  in  the  two  Canadas — now 
there  were  210  under  the  direction  of  the  Canada  Conference ; 
then  there  were  nine  laborers  employed — now  there  were  no 
less  than  305  ;  then  there  were  1,787  members  in  society — - 
now  there  were  37,895  ;  then  there  could  not  have  been 
above  half  a  dozen  humble  houses  of  worship — now  they 
might  have  near  a  thousand.  All  this  in  the  central  body, 
irrespective  of  the  numerical  and  other  strength  of  no  less 
than  two  or  four  offshoots  either  from  the  parent  stocks  of 
Europe  or  Canada. 

127.  According  to  the  previous  unanimous  request  of  the 
Conference,  made  one  year  before,  and  in  pursuance  of  con- 
sequent arrangements  for  that  purpose  and  announcement, 
on  the  first  evening  after  the  Conference — that  is  to  say,  on 
the  6th  of  June,  1855 — the  man  of  seventy-five  years  and 
of  fifty  in  the  toilsome  Canadian  itinerancy,  tall,  unbent, 
and  with  even  elastic  step,  but  with  ample  locks  of  snowy 
whiteness,  ascended  the  commanding  pulpit  of  the  spacious 
North  Street  Wesleyan  church,  and  surveyed  a  vast  con- 
course of  persons  brought  together  by  the  extraordinary 
character  of  the  services,  to  deliver  his  expected  jubilee 

SERMON. 

128.  His  text  and  sermon  were  both  in  the  very  best 
taste — not  adapted  to  recall  his  own  exploits,  or  to  celebrate 
his  own  achievements,  but  tt,  celebrate  the  loving-kindness 
of  the  Creator  and  Provider  to  his  human  creatures  at 
large,  and  to  His  covenant  people  in  particular.  He  an- 
nounced as  the  subject  of  meditation  the  words  of  the  royal 


240  CASE,    AND 

poetic  prophet,  as  recorded  in  the  103rd  Psalm  and  17th 
verse  :  "  But  the  mercy  of  the  Lord  is  from  everlasting  to 
everlasting  upon  them  that  fear  Him,  and  His  righteousness 
unto  children's  children."  After  a  brief  exposition  of  the 
theological  aspects  and  teachings  of  the  text,  the  venerable 
preacher,  with  booming,  undulating  voice,  launched  forth 
into  a  paean  of  triumph  in  the  displays  of  God's  mercy  and 
faithfulness  to  himself  and  the  people  of  Canada,  especially 
its  religious  people,  during  the  fifty  years  of  their  connection 
with  each  other.  The  straits,  and  toils,  and  sufferings  of 
the  early  settlers,  and  the  exhausting  journeys  and  the  des- 
titution of  the  early  preachers  came  into  review,  followed 
by  a  presentation  of  the  deliverances  that  had  been  wrought, 
the  improvements  that  had  taken  place,  and  the  wondrous 
extension  of  the  work  of  religion.  The  discourse  occupied 
an  hour  and  a-quarter  in  delivery,  but  it  did  not  weary. 

129.  So  healthy  and  hale  was  this  active,  though  aged 
man,  that  he  and  his  friends  little  recked  at  that  time  that 
he  was  substantially  chaunting  his  own  requiem.  That 
session  of  the  Conference  had  to  register  the  deaths  and 
record  the  excellences  of  four  of  their  brethren,  fallen  since 
their  last  assembling — the  promising  lads  James  Taylor  and 
Lucius  Adams  had  fallen  before  their  period  of  trial  had 
expired.  Of  the  latter,  especially,  it  might  have  been 
sung  : — ■ 

"The  stranger's  eye  wept,  that  in  life's  brightest  bloom 
One  gifted  so  rarely  should  sink  to  the  tomb  ; 
For  in  ardor  he  led  in  the  van  of  the  host, 
And  he  fell  like  a  soldier — he  died  at  his  post ! " 

John  Williams,  the  graceful  pulpit  man  and  the  soul- winning 
revivalist,  also  was  cut  off  in  the  midst  of  his  days — in  his 
prime, — and  left  a  comparatively  young  widow  to  mourn  his 
loss.     But  Prindle — Andrew  Prindle, — the  coeval  in  years 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  241 

and  the  compeer  in  ministerial  labors  of  Case,  the  man  of 
massive  proportions — of  body  and  mind, — the  acute,  original 
theologian  and  mighty  preacher,  had  just  crossed  the  flood 
before  his  early  friend,  having  been  barely  permitted  to 
enter  the  climacteric  year  of  his  ministry,  in  the  seventy- 
fifth  year  of  his  age  (for  he  died  January  15th,  1855),  all 
of  which  might  have  been  interpreted  as  premonitory  of  his 
own  sudden  removal. 

130.  But  while  the  Head  of  the  Church  was  "  burying 
His  workmen,"  He  was  making  provision  for  "  carrying  on 
His  work."  Mr.  Case,  in  his  jubilee  sermon,  had  said  that, 
if  required,  he  could  give  the  names  of  two  hundred  men, 
whites  and  Indians,  in  our  own  and  other  Christian  Churches, 
whom  he  knew  to  have  been  converted  and  raised  up  into 
the  ministry  in  Canada.  And  this,  his  last  Conference,  was 
particularly  prolific  in  recruits  to  the  ministerial  ranks. 

131.  We  cannot  indulge  ourselves  in  the  minuteness 
which  has  characterized  our  details  hitherto.  All  I  can 
presume  to  give  will  be  an  outline  of  character  here  and 
there.  The  ministry  seemed  likely  to  be  kept  full.  Besides 
the  fifteen  who  had  graduated  to  full  connexion  in  our  own 
ranks,  with  whom  the  reader  has  become  acquainted,  two 
matured  men,  from  lesser  sections  of  Methodism,  were  taken 
into  the  full  ministry  at  this  Conference.  These  were 
Thomas  Robson  and  Thomas  Lawson.  Both  were  English- 
men, and  destined  to  be  exceedingly  successful  laborers  ;  but 
both  have,  years  since,  gone  to  their  rest.  The  former  came 
to  us  from  the  "  M.  E.  Church  of  Canada ;"  the  latter  had 
labored  among  the  Primitive  brethren.  They  were  both 
average  preachers,  and  very  faithful  to  their  work.  They 
both  di«d  suddenly  :  the  first  "  died  at  his  post,  having 
•flfcrcely  time  to  lay  down  his  weapons."  "  Bro.  Lawson  was 
in  the  act  of  crossing  the  Grand  River  in  a  scow,  when  • 
suddenly  the  chain  snapped  asunder,  and  he  was  precipitated 

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242  CASE,    AND 

« 

into*  the  rolling  flood,   and  soon  was  numbered  with  the 
dead." 

132.  The  real  augmentation  of  the  ranks  of  itinerant 
laborers  on  circuits  for  the  year  1855-56  was  to  the  number 
of  thirty-one.  That  was  the  number  of  those  formally 
received  on  trial,  and  printed  in  the  Minutes  as  such.  But 
that  is  not  the  reason  why  we  say  that  augmentation  was 
produced,  for  all  but  five  or  six  of  these  brethren  whose 
names  are  given  labored  on  circuits  under  a  chairman  dur- 
ing the  preceding  year  (1854-55),  and  nearly  all  of  these,  in 
some  form  or  another,  were  presented  to  the  reader.  Still, 
there  was  an  augmentation  of  the  actual  laborers  this  year 
over  the  last,  to  the  number  of  thirty  or  thirty-one,  but  this 
was  because,  as  we  find  from  inquiry,  some  twenty-three  or 
twenty-five,  were  discovered  and  placed  in  the  many  vacan- 
cies that  had  to  be  left  in  the  vast  list  of  appointments. 
Taking,  therefore,  say,  the  seven  actual  candidates  not  before 
described,  and  the  twenty-five  supplies,  the  new  recruits  did 
not  amount  to  less  than  thirty  or  thirty-one  ;  and  if  you  add 
thirty-one  to  the  printed  list  of  laborers  in  the  Minutes, 
which  was  305,  the  whole  number  of  those  doing  battle  for 
God  in  the  two  Canadas  and  the  Hudson  Bay  Territory  was 
not  less  than  335.  Three  in  this  list  I  pass  over  in  sorrow, 
because,  although  they  were  personable  men  to  look  at,  and 
in  their  respective  ways  gifted  and  capable ;  and  although*  ] 
from  their  activity  and  apparent  zeal,  they  gave  augury  of 
more  than  usual  enterprise  and  success,  were  destined,  after 
a  few  years,  to  "vilely  cast  their  shields  away,"  and  to 
disgrace  themselves  and  to  dishonor  the  Captain  of  their 
salvation.  We  cover  their  names  with  the  mantle  of  obli- 
vion, hoping  that  every  one  "  who  putteth  on  the  harness  " 
may  take  warning  at  their  fate.  I  am  shut  up,  therefore, 
to  the  consideration  of  twenty-seven  or  twenty-eight  good 
men  and  true  to  be  presented  to  the  reader. 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  243 

133.  And  of  these  themselves  T  will  not  promise  the 
minute  details  furnished  in  most  cases  concerning  those  of 
whom  we  have  written,  but  simply  present  their  charac- 
teristic features  by  a  few  bold  lines,  that  the  animus  of 
the  men,  who  were  soon  to  grasp  the  fallen  standard  and 
trumpet  of  him  who  ere  long  was  to  put  off  his  harness. 

134.  There  were  seven  worthy  men  among  those  in  the  list 
of  candidates  of  whom  the  reader  has  not  been  informed. 
Their  names  were  the  following :  W.  B.  Morden,  James 
Ln timer,  Ashton  Fletcher,  Sen.,  Samuel  Tucker ,  Amos  E.  Russ, 
William  H.  Laird,  and  Isaac  Crane,  the  last  of  whom,  there 
can  be  no  doubt,  labored  on  a  circuit  the  preceding  year. 
A  word  or  two  concerning  each  of  the  above. 

135.  Three  of  these,  namely,  Morden,  Latimer,  and  Fletcher, 
were  destined  not  to  labor  "  affectively  "  very  many  years  : — 
Morden,  I  suspect,  was  a  young  Canadian,  I  surmise  from 
Flamboro'  Country,  took  tolerably  fair  circuits,  spent  one 
year  at  Victoria  College  as  a  Conference  student,  and  filled 
up  his  four  years'  probation,  and  was  then  "  dropped,"  but 
whether  voluntarily  on  his  part,  or  involuntarily,  I  cannot 
say.  He  must  be  by  no  means  confounded  with  T.  E.  Mor- 
den, who  entered  the  work  in  1875,  an  English-speaking 
Canadian,  who  has,  out  of  love  to  the  Teutons  in  our  midst, 
mastered  the  German  language  as  to  be  thoroughly  bi-linguil, 
being  qualified  to  write,  and  think,  and  speak  in  German, 
and  to  render  a  great  amount  of  service  to  our  evangelistic 
efforts  as  one  of  our  most  useful  and'  trusted  German  mis- 
sionaries. A  fellow-laborer  in  that  department  pronounces 
him  to  be  one  of  the  purest-minded,  unselfish,  and  upright 
ministers  he  ever  knew,  and  one  pre-eminently  qualified  for 
his  work. 

136.  Jam?*  F.  Latimer,  I  think,  a  Bay  of  Quinte  man,  of 
a  good  stock,  tall,  straight,  and  commanding,  though  rather 
silent  than  otherwise,  was   destined   to  spend  one   year  at 


2£i  CASE,   AND 

• 

Victoria,  and  ten  foil  years  on  circuits,  and  then  to  succumb 
to  chronic  infirmity,  and  to  become  a  supernumerary,  but  to 
keep  as  near  under  the  shadow  of  the  Conference  as  possible. 

137.  We  have  already  made  some  references  to  Mr. 
Fletcher.  He  was  a  local  preacher  of  fair  gifts,  long  <expe^- 
ence,  and  ample  means  for  his  support,  who,  like  many  an- 
other  old  Methodist,  wisbed  to  spend  the  balance  of  his  days 
given  up  to  the  work  of  God.  He  was  an  English  gentle* 
man,  but  has  become  thoroughly  Canadianized.  He  was 
soon  ordained,  labored  three  years  on  circuits,  and  then  was 
placed  in  the  ranks  of  supernumeraries,  thus  givinghim  a 
ministerial  status  until  now. 

138.  Grams  and  Tucker,  both  Englishmen,  the  first  mar- 
ried, the  other  single,  the  one  profound,  the  other  more  tak- 
ing, but  both  exceedingly  laborious  and  reliable,  and  destin^; 
to  elevate  all  the  circuits  on  which  they  have  labored*to  this 
day.  Crane  was  trained  in  the  Normal  School,  one  of  the  first, 
students,  along  with  Dewart  and  some  other  men  of  marll ; 
Tucker,  however,  or  wherever  educated,  was  a  man  of  varied 
attainments,  one  of  which  attainments  is  a  considerable 
amount  of  medical  knowledge.  . 

139.  Laird  and  Russ  are  Canadians;  one  of  Irish, pedi- 
gree, the  other  of  German  ;  one  short,  stout,  and  plump,  the 
other  tall,  big-boned,  muscular,  strong,  and  springy  as  a  steel 
trap.  They  both  received  some  advantage  from  Victoria. 
The  larger  had  more  vigor,  the  less,  perhaps,  more  polish. 
Ladies  would  admire  the  preaching  of  the  lesser  man,  sin- 
ners would  have  to  stand  from  under  when-  the  larger  was 
fulminating  his  thunders.  Brother  Laird  was  "to  pass 
through  town  and  city  pulpits  to  the  chair  of  a  district; 
Russ's  enterprise,  after  turning  his  circuits  upside  down jin 
Canada,  was  to  send  him  to  listen  to  the  surf  battling  on  the 
Pacific  shore,  and  to  be  the  "  Great  Heart  "-guide  of  miners 
and  pioneer  pilgrims.  . 


HIS    COTEMPOBARIES.  245 

140.  Some  of  the  supplies  employed  to  fill  long  lists  of  va- 
cancies, which  made  unsightly  gaps  in  this  year's  list  of  sta- 
tions were  decidedly  valuable,  and  destined  to  purchase  to 
themselves  a  good  degree. 

141.  I  propose  to  take  them  as  they  turn  up  without  re- 
ference to  alphabetical  order,  age,  or  nationality  :— 

(1)  Edward  Ward,  the  self-consuming  home  missionary 
from  the  cities  of  Yorkshire,  transferred  to  Canadian  fields 
of  labor,  has  proved  one  of  the  mightily  successful  laborers 
in  this  land.  He  served  the  Humber  Circuit  during  1853-54 
and  54-55. 

(2)  Thomas  Cobb,  the  neat,  compact,  studious,  little  Eng- 
lishman, unique,  original,  and  peculiarly  emphatic  and  impres- 
sive in  preaching,  has  demeaned  himself  like  a  gentleman, 
and  quietly  worked  up  the  good  circuits  (scarcely  equal  to 
his  abilities)  to  which  he  has  been  appointed.  He  labored 
his  first  year  under  the  chairman  on  the  old  Grimsby  Circuit, 
with  the  gentle  Simon  Huntingdon. 

(3)  Here  comes  William  Hansford,  English  too,  good 
in  physique,  strong  in  mind,  industrious  in  research,  clever 
in  conversation,  and  able  in  the  pulpit.  He  is  the  ready 
Financial  Secretary  and  accountant,  and  he,  too,  has  been  a 
chairman.  His  first  circuit,  Quebec,  was  enough  to  try  his 
metal,  and  the  metal  proved  to  have  no  flaw. 

(4)  Here  comes  an  Irish-Canadian,  Thomas  S.  Howard, 
who  though  married  and  in  a  successful  business,  sold  out 
his  stock  and  his  stand,  and  obeyed  the  call,  through  Rev. 
Henry  Wilkinson,  and  went  out  on  the  Strathroy  Circuit, 
worked  it  up,  and  has  been  in  a  revival  ever  since. 

(5)  John  Nelson  Lake,  a  native  of  the  Bay  of  Quinte,  de- 
scended from  an  excellent  Methodist  stock,  and  called  after 
the  Yorkshire  Methodist  hero,  himself  not  much  his  inferior 
in  size,  symmetry,  stature,  and  strength,  being  a  healthy 
looking  blonde,  five  feet  and  nine  inches  in  height,  and  one 


246  CASE,    AND 

hundred  ana?  sixty  pounds  in  weight,  had  been  converted  at 
the  age  of  nineteen,  licensed  to  preach  at  twenty-one; 
although  embarked  in  a  successful  business,  for  which  he  is 
well  adapted,  left  all  at  the  call  of  the  Church  and  went, 
October  1st,  1855,  out  as  the  third  minister  on  the  then  ex- 
tensive Picton  Circuit,  including,  as  it  did,  what  are  now  the 
Picton,  Frankford,  Bloomfield,  and  Cherry  Valley  Circuits, 
embracing  twenty-two  appointments,  as  the  colleague  of 
Brethren  Slater  and  Toinblin,  where  he  remained  the  balance 
of  that  year  and  the  next  year  also,  entering  on  the  circuit 
October  the  1st,  1855.  In  twenty  months  no  less  than  three 
hundred  new  members  were  added  to  the  Church.  It  is  but 
just  that  this  dear  brother  should  be  allowed  to  assign  the 
reason  why  he  is  not  now  performing  the  work  of  a  circuit : — 

"  The  cause  of  my  retiring  from  the  work  was  a  nervous 
affection  of  the  eyes,  which  prevented  me  studying,  and  hin- 
dered my  reading  with  any  satisfaction,  and  I  am  afraid  I 
will  never  recover  fully.  I  would  be  so  glad  if  I  could  again 
enter  the  work,  my  heart  longs  for  it,  and,  like  Payson,  '  I 
would  rather  a  man  wouid  eat  my  dinner  than  preach  for 
me.'  But  this  Sherbourne  Street  Church  has  been  a  very 
great  '  safety  valve '  for  me.  The  Sabbath-school,  of  which  I 
am  superintendent,  has  kept  me  in  sympathy  with  the  work 
I  love,  and  then  I  have  contributed  towards  the  church 
$1,700  in  all,  which  keeps  me  from  the  love  of  money.  I 
may  add  that  I  married  a  grand-daughter  of  the  Rev.  Thos. 
Whitehead,  on  9th  June,  1859." 

(6)  Wm.  Norton,  an  Irishman,  but  rather  quiet  for  that 
nationality,  married,  supplied  the  frontier  Bayfield  Circuit, 
and  was  destined  so  to  commend  himself  to  his  brethren  as 
to  be  received  on  trial  at  the  next  Conference,  and  to  be  al- 
lowed to  labor  on  these  succeeding  twenty-two  years.  I  am 
so  little  acquainted  with  this  dear  brother  as  not  to  know 
how    to  describe    him.     From  what    I  do  know,    I  should 


HIS   COTEMPOHARIES.  247 

be  inclined  to  say  he  was  average  in  ability,  quiet  in  opera- 
tion, and  medium  in  success. 

(7)  Now  comes  a  specimen  of  what  Lower  Canada  town- 
ships can  do  in  the  supply  for  the  vacancy  at  Duds  well.  A 
warm-hearted  Methodist  family  on  the  St.  Francis  River,  of 
American  origin,  by  the  name  of  Fowler,  were  identified 
with  the  cause  when  it  was  under  American,  or  Methodist 
Episcopal,  supervision,  and  would  talk  with  rapture  of  Ayre, 
and  Virgen,  and  Streeter,  and  Hibbard,  and  Luckey,  but  who 
also  cheerfully  adopted  the  British  missionaries  when  the  ar- 
rangement of  1820  took  place,  had  a  pair  of  twin  sons,  both 
of  whom  were  destined  to  be  ministers,  though  in  different 
sections  of  the  Church — Horace  had  yet  to  try  the  work  ; 
Hiram  (Fowler)  was  the  supply  for  Dudswell.  He  ulti- 
mately became  an  able  preacher,  and  is  now  chairman  of  a 
District ;  but  before  his  mind  was  matured  and  stored,  I 
know  of  no  one  who,  by  a  sympathizing  spirit,  a  persuasive 
voice,  and  voluble  utterance,  could  make  a  moderate  capital 
go  further.  He  was  fairly  up  to  man's  estate,  medium-sized 
and  comely  looking. 

(8)  Of  Henry  H.  Perdiw,  who,  it  appears,  supplied  one  of 
the  vacancies,  I  know  very  little ;  and  our  painstaking  in- 
vestigator, Cornish,  has  overlooked  him  altogether.  Of  this 
I  am  sure,  he  was  of  a  good  Irish  Methodist  family,  who 
lived  a  number  of  years  in  the  Township  of  Chinguacousy. 
We  find  he  took  very  good  circuits  for  several  years,  mostly 
in  the  lower  districts.  Looking  for  his  name  in  the  alpha- 
betical list  of  ministers  names  for  1860,  I  found  opposite 
Henry  H.  Perdue,  "  out  of  health."  This  I  suspect  was  the 
harbinger  of  an  early  grave,  found  by  so  many  young 
preachers  in  this  country. 

(9)  Here  comes  a  brother  of  whom,  though  I  have  b3sn 
furnished  with  no  data,  I  have  the  happiness  to  know  more. 
He  was  tall  and  preposessing  in  appearance,  a:i  Englishmin 


248  .         CASE,   AID 

bybirth,  \fho,  I  suspect,  came  from  that  country  a  local" 
preacher.  He  found  an  opening  in  the  noble  Brampton  Cir1^ 
cuit  under  the  chairman  for  the  year  1855-S&,  and  was 
adopted  by  the  Conference.  He  is  not  fussy  or  demonstra- 
tive, but  amiable  and  pleasing  in  his  manners.  He  does  not 
obtrude  his  well-doings  in  the  papers,  but  his  name  never 
comes  up  for  evil-doing.  He  has  bad  the  good  fortune  to 
secure  a  wife,  who,  for  piety  and  gifts,  has  proved  herself  a 
helpmeet  for  him.  Some  will  surmise  that  I  am  writing  of 
Brother  William  Short. 

(10)  A   fatherless   boy,   brought   up   with   a   Methodist 
family,  on  the  Yonge  Street  Circuit,  where  he  was  convertef| 
and  became  a  local  preacher,  William  L.  Scott  by  name^is 
n vested  with  the  responsibility  at  once  of  managing  the  Wei* 
lesley  Mission,  and  succeeded  so  well  as  to  be  recommenjlli 
and  received  the  next  year.     He  was  quite  young^but  his 
light  hair  and  fair  complexion  made  him  seem  youngeri  thant 
he  was.     His  being  sent  a  little  later  to  the  neighborhood  of 
Peterboro',  was  the  means  of  an  alliance  with  one  of  the  best» 
Methodist  families  in  the  land,  by  marrying  their  only  child. 
The  mention  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  McBerney  is  enough, 
Indeed,  Mr.  McB.  preached  so  much  and  so  ably*  as  to  de-. 
serve  a  place  with  these  worthies  himself. 

(11)  James  Berry  has  been  mentioned,  and  Joseph  Jones. 
had  not  better  be  further  mentioned.  If  everything  had  , 
been  equal  to  his  gifts,  all  would  have  been  well. 

(1 2)  Charles  Stringfellow,  a  local  preacher  from  England,' ;: 
came  out  in  time  to  release  Bro.  Hansford  from  Point  LeviK 
who  "was  taken  into  the  City  of  Quebec,  and  Brother  S.  gavil 
a  fair  specimen  of  the  honorable  and  .useful  career  which  has 
succeeded,  including  ten  or  a  dozen  years  at  Oxford  and" 
Norway  Houses,  in  the  far  North-West,  in  all  of  which  posi- 

-  tions  he  has  proved  himself  capable  and  reliable.     Not  large, 
but  active  was  he.       -         '         '  ■■'iv 


HIS    COTEMPOEAEIES.  249 

(13)  Two  married  men  were  admitted  as  supplies,  who 
did  well ;  one  was  a  local  preacher  from  England,  John 
Dames,  who  was  sent — a  needed  supply — -to  Hatley.  He  has 
maintained  himself  in  that  Province  ever  since. 

Alas  !  we  have  buried  poor,  worthy  Atkinson,  and  must 
let  his  obituary  tell  the  story  of  him  : — 

"Bro.  Atkinson  died  in  Maitland,  on  the  29th  day  of  De- 
cember, 1874,  as  he  had  just  attained  to  fifty  years  of  age. 
He  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  this 
country  when  he  was  very  young.  Through  the  instrumen- 
tality of  a  godly  mother  he  was  early  led  to  give  his  heart  to 
God,  and  united  with  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church,  in 
the  Village  of  Newburgh.  He  became  a  most  zealous  and 
active  Christian  worker,  constantly  bearing  his  cross  at 
every  opportunity.  He  then  felt  that  God  had  called  him 
to  preach  the  gospel.  Removing  to  another  part  of  the 
country,  he  became  connected  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Here  he  soon  gave  evidence  that  he  was  a  suitable 
person  to  be  employed  in  preaching  the  gospel,  and  was  ac- 
cordingly licensed  a  local  preacher,  and  soon  after  entered 
the  ranks  of  the  travelling  ministry.  For  four  years  he 
labored  usefully  in  this  relation,  but  his  preferences  and 
early  associations  led  him  to  seek  connection  with  the  Wes- 
leyan Methodist  Church,  and  in  the  year  1855  he  was  re- 
ceived into  its  ministry,  and  stationed  on  the  Rochester  Mis- 
sion. He  entered  upon  his  work  with  great  zeal  and  ac- 
tivity, and  continued  in  it  with  unabated  earnestness  until 
the  Master  summoned  him  home  to  rest.  The  greater  por- 
tion of  his  ministerial  life  was  spent  west  of  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, where  his  name  will  long  be  held  in  affectionate  remem- 
brance by  many  who  were  led  to  Christ  through  his  labors. 
"Bro.  Atkinson  was  a  man  of  deep  and  fervent  piety, 
with  a  glowing  zeal  for  the  salvation  of  men.  In  his  preach- 
ing, all  his  energies  were  bent  on  its  accomplishment.  On  his 
11* 


250  CASE,    AND 

circuit  he  \«as  a  most  diligent  and  zealous  worker,  and  the 
blessing  of  God  attended  his  labors,  so  that  he  was  the  means 
of  gathering  many  souls  into  the  fold  of  the  Chief  Shepherd. 
With  one  exception,  he  held  a  camp-meeting  on  every  circuit 
he  travelled.  The  promotion  of  the  work  of  God  engrossed 
all  his  time  and  energies.  Indeed,  there  can  be  little  doubt 
that  he  often  labored  beyond  his  strength  ;  but  he  loved  the 
work,  and  was  happy  only  when  actively  engaged  in  it.  On 
account  of  failing  health,  he  once  sought  rest,  and  was  left 
without  a  circuit  for  one  year ;  but  he  was  not  satisfied  in 
this  position,  and  at  the  end  of  three  months,  a  vacancy  oc- 
curring, he  resumed  his  labors.  He  was  not  suffered,  how- 
ever, to  continue  many  years  longer.  Disease  began  to  prey 
upon  him  and  render  his  work  difficult.  His  last  year  was 
one  of  much  suffering,  in  which  he  struggled  hard  to  perform 
his  duties,  encouraged  by  the  great  kindness  of  his  people 
and  by  the  prosperity  of  the  work.  In  his  last  sickness  he 
proved  the  genuineness  of  his  faith  and  the  sufficiency  .of 
God's  grace.  There  were  no  fears,  but  holy  joy  and  glorious 
hope.  The  messenger  came  as  the  old  year  was  closing,  and 
found  him  ready.  A  faithful  minister  of  Jesus  Christ  tri- 
umphed over   death,  and  went  home  to  receive  his  reward." 

(14)  Edmund  E.  Sweet  and  Benjamin  Cole  came  out  into 
the  work  from  places  in  Lower  Canada,  and  were  appointed 
to  supply  circuits  in  that  Province.  Sweet  was  sent  to  Hunt- 
ingdon and  Cole  to  Melbourne.  Cole  has  ended  his  labors, 
and  we  will  let  his  obituary  give  his  brethren's  matured  esti- 
mate of  him. 

"  Bro.  Cole  was  born  in  the  ancient  City  of  Quebec,  in 
1825,  where  he  spent  the  days  of  his  youth  in  follies  and 
amusements  too  common  to  that  period  of  life.  Having  be- 
come converted  to  God  under  the  ministrations  of  the  *Wes- 
leyan  Methodists  in  1849,  he  gave  himself  up  at  once  with- 
out reserve  in  entire  consecration  to  his  Redeemer.     Of  a 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  251 

sanguine  temperament,  impulsive  in  his  disposition,  and 
thoroughly  Protestant  in  his  views  and  feelings,  at  the  time 
of  the  unhappy  Gavazzi  riots  in  Quebec  and  Montreal,  he 
was  one  of  the  volunteers  who  rallied  around  that  champion 
of  Protestantism,  and  very  narrowly  escaped  with  his  life. 
After  laboring  for  some  time  as  a  Sabbath-school  teacher, 
superintendent  of  the  school,  and  organist  of  our  church  in 
Quebec,  he  became  convinced  that  it  was  his  duty  to  devote 
himself  to  the  work  of  the  Christian  ministry,  and  he  hesitated 
not ;  but  though  filling  a  lucrative  situation,  with  every 
prospect  of  speedy  advancement,  he  cheerfully  abandoned 
all  and  entered  upon  the  self-denying  and  laborious  life  of  a 
Wesleyan  minister.  This  was  in  1855.  His  circuits  were 
large  and  laborious,  but  Bro.  Cole  never  spared  himself  nor 
shrank  from  duty.  He  was  generous,  cheerful,  social ;  a 
good  and  enthusiastic,  musician,  a  true  friend,  and,  better 
than  all,  deeply  pious.  These  qualities  made  him  a  welcome 
inmate  at  the  dwellings  of  our  people,  who  were  always 
ready  to  greet  him  with  a  smile.  But  he  was  popular  in  the 
best  sense  of  the  word  :  he  was  useful  in  saving  souls  and 
building  up  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer.  At  the  Confer- 
ence of  1870  he  was  compelled,  by  total  physical  prostration, 
to  accept  a  superannuated  relation.  For  the  last  twelve 
months  previous  to  his  decease  his  sufferings  had  been  great, 
but  he  sustained  them  with  Christian  patience.  Although 
himself  suffering  from  intense  pain,  he  had  always  a  cheerful 
smile  and  loving  word  for  those  who  visited  him.  The 
young  looked  up  to  him  as  a  father — the  aged  blessed  the 
day  they  first  saw  him.  As  he  drew  near  the  last  struggle, 
bis  consolations  were  abundant.  '  Precious  Jesus  I  Nearer 
home;  every  pin  loosened  so  gently ;  ready  to  go!'  When 
•aked  if  he  wished  to  live,  he  said :  '  I  would  like  to  labor 
a  little  longer  in  the  vineyard,  but  I  am  ready  to  go.'  He 
particularly  desired  that  while  he  was  passing  away  those 


252  CASE,    AND 

around  him  Should  sing  his  soul  into  bliss.  His  favorite 
hymn  was  '  My  God,  I  am  thine,'  etc.  This  beautiful  hymn 
was  sung  and  another  was  begun  ;  but,  rousing  all  his  ener- 
gies, he  cried,  '  Rock  of  Ages  ;'  and  as  these  words  passed 
the  lips  of  the  singers,  his  happy  spirit  winged  its  flight  to 
everlasting  bliss.  Thus  triumphantly  passed  away  our  dear 
friend  and  brother,  at  the  residence  of  his  endeared  friend, 
Robertson  Lincoln,  Esq.,  in  Abbotsford,  in  the  forty-sixth 
year  of  his  age  and  the  fifteenth  of  his  ministry,  on  the  2nd 
of  August,  1870.  '  They  that  be  wise  shall  shine  as  the 
brightness  of  the  firmament ;  and  they  that  turn  many  to 
righteousness  as  the  stars  for  ever  and  ever.'  " 

Mr.  Sweet  was  not  very  young,  but  single,  a  well-furnished 
Bible  student,  an  able,  searching,  very  impressive  preacher, 
enterprising  and  industrious  in  his  circuits.  If  any  one 
wishes  to  have  his  person  described  and  to  contemplate  his 
attributes  as  a  preacher,  he  must  read  the  sketch  of  him 
among  the  "  Conference  Crayons  "  in  the  pages  of  Past  and 
Present.  He  was  a  native  of  Devonshire,  but  made  him- 
self thoroughly  a  Canadian. 

(15)  This  year's  list  of  extemporaneous  supplies  yielded  three 
very  considerable  men,  who  are  yet  to  be  mentioned.  The  first 
of  these  was  a  married  man,  but  of  such  inherent  energy  as 
to  make  him  a  prize  to  the  Connexion.  This  was  Alfred 
Andrews,  born  in  Suffolk,  England,  1833,  and  therefore  now 
about  twenty-two  years  of  age.  He  was  the  eldest  child 
of  "Wesleyan  parents,  who  had  come  to  Canada  and  settled 
in  Toronto  twenty  years  before,  where  Alfred  was  relig- 
iously trained  in  the  old  Adelaide  Street  Sunday-school, 
for  which  institution  he  imbibed  a  great  regard,  and  was 
destined  to  be  placed  at  the  head  of  the  Sunday-school 
operations  of  his  denomination.  He  was  convinced  of  sin 
under  the  address  of  a  Sunday-school  superintendent  in 
Toronto.     When  the   family  removed  to  Aurora,  for  some 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  253 

reasons,  they  united  with  the  New  Connexion,  among  whom 
he  seems  to  have  begun  to  preach.  But  returning  to  the  old 
body  again,  the  Rev.  Lewis  Warner  induced  him  to  supply 
the  Mount  Forest  Circuit,  in  the  Guelph  District,  in  which 
work  he  was  destined  to  hold  on.  He  had  many  things  in 
his  favor — a  good  constitution,  an  active  mind,  a  thorough 
schooling  under  good  teachers,  serious  piety  and  enterprise. 

(16)  Stephen  Bond,  a  young  Canadian,  born  in  the  Town- 
ship of  Dumfries,  but  of  English  parents,  who  was  called  out 
this  year  by  a  chairman  on  the  St.  Mary's  Circuit,  was 
destined  to  be  no  mean  man.  He  possessed  a  quick,  self- 
reliant  mind,  the  training  of  which  had  been  by  no  means 
neglected.  Rather  under  than  over  the  medium  size,  he 
was  the  sort  of  man  for  activity  and  endurance.  Over  the 
average  for  preaching  ability  and  business  capacity,  he  has 
worked  up  his  circuits  well,  and  performed  any  Connexional 
trust  assigned  him  in  a  complete  and  respectable  manner. 

(17)  Next  comes  a  brother  larger  and  heavier  than 
Brother  Bond,  young  and  single,  but  not  a  boy  ;  not  indigen- 
ous to  the  country,  for  he  came  from  old  England  to  help  us. 
His  life  bad  not  been  sedentary  nor  professional,  but  com- 
prised the  skill  and  activities  of  a  builder,  yet  his  strong,  sound 
mind,  along  with  an  average  school  training,  had  been  directed 
to  every  branch  of  study  that  relates  to  the  function  of  preach- 
ing; and  he  sat  at  the  feet  and  enjoyed  the  friendship  of 
many  of  the  great  lights  of  the  British  Wesleyan  Conference. 
He  had  been  long  on  the  plan,  and  was  a  capable  city 
preacher  when  sent  to  the  aid  of  the  ministers  of  the 
Hamilton  Circuit.  He  was  destined  often  to  have  a  town 
or  city  station,  and  upon  occasion,  to  fill  the  chair  of  a  dis- 
trict. Such  was  Jonathan  E.  Betts.  The  above  has  been 
learned  merely  by  former  conversations  with  our  friend. 

1 42.  And  now  I  have  yet  another,  whom  I  have  reserved 
to  the  last,  that  I  might  afford  him  a  section  to   himself. 


254  CASE,    AND 

True,  lie  -was  a  boy  just  "  out  of  his  time "  at  a 
printing  office ;  and  he  says'  of  himelf,  "  When  I  entered 
the  work  I  had  no  books,  no  money,  and  very  slender 
educational  acquirements."  The  "  educational  acquire- 
ments," I  am  inclined  to  think,  with  his  present  en- 
larged views  and  attainments,  he  underrated.  No  person 
capable  of  the  elegant  calligraphy,  and  evincing  the  accurate 
orthography  and  ready  accountantship  of  this  man,  could 
otherwise  than  have  had  a  good  elementary  English  education. 
Then,  put  a  boy  of  such  attainments  and  of  a  quick,  observing 
mind  into  a  printing  office  for  seven  years,  and  he  will  come 
out  with  no  ill  education.  And  then,  there  was  an  education 
of  heart  and  of  the  moral  nature  which  had  been  going  on 
in  the  Sabbath-school  and  Bible-class,  and,  since  his  conver- 
sion, under  the  fervent,  emotional,  and  paternal  Goodson.  in 
1852,  three  years  before  ;  the  training  I  say.  he  received  in 
the  class  and  prayer  and  fellowship  meeting,  and  on  the 
exhorters'  and  local  preachers'  plan.  These  meetings  and 
the  temperance  platform  would  soon  make  a  person  so  easy 
in  utterance,  so  graceful  in  elocution,  so  facile  in  expression, 
and  so  naturally  eloquent  as  Alexander  Sutherland,  no  mean 
orator  at  once.  Such  a  man  with  such  alert  and  vigorous 
powers  of  mind,  would  be  sure  to  make  his  mark.  And  make 
it  he  did.  It  was  soon  rumored  in  Wesleyan  circles  that 
Brother  Warner  had  taken  a  young  Scotch  lad  (he  was  of 
Scottish  parents)  out  of  Guelph,  who  was  distancing  his  com- 
peers by  a  long  way.  And  when,  in  a  year  or  two,  he  was 
allowed  to  go  to  Victoria  as  a  Conference  student,  and  to  meas- 
ure himself  in  the  recitation  room,  in  the  debating  society,  and 
on  the  rostrum  with  others,  he  was  pronounced  by  President 
Nelles  to  have  a  mind  of  the  first  class.  Pity  the  exigencies 
of  the  work  would  allow  him  to  remain  in  college  halls 
so  short  a  time.  Everything  this  brother  undertook  was  done 
well — not  so  much  because  of  the  plodding  slavery  of  his 


HIS    C0TEMP0RAR1ES.  255 

application,  as  it  was  because  it  came  easy  to  him,  and  he 
could  hardly  help  doing  as  he  did.  Now  then,  here  in  this 
extemporized  supply,  we  have  the  forcible  city  preacher,  the 
trenchant  writer,  and  the  ready  administrator  that  was  to 
be.  Little  did  the  "  Father  of  Canadian  Missions  "  think 
before  he  lay  down  to  his  long  last  rest,  that  a  lad  on  a  bush 
circuit  was,  within  the  next  twenty  years,  to  come  up  and 
be  one  of  the  helmsmen  of  the  great  Methodist  Missionary 
Society  which  supervises  its  missions  from  New  Credit 
to  WMtefish  Lake,  and  from  the  Bermudas  to  Japan.  The 
fiev.  Alexander  Sutherland  has  physical  advantages ;  well- 
proportioned,  he  stands  five  feet  ten  in  height,  and  weighs 
one  hundred  and  seventy-four  pounds.  Need  we  say,  his  com- 
plexion is  sandy,  and  his  hair,  which  was  once  abundant, 
curly.  While  he  is  what  he  is  now,  we  need  not  want  a 
secretary,  a  chairman,  an  editor,  or  a  President  of  Confer- 
ence. He  has  been  already  twice  Secretary  of  the  original 
Conference,  besides  a  Chairman  of  District. 

143.  This  Conference  was  addressed  at  great  length,  and  in 
a  very  instructive  and  encouraging  manner,  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Beacham,  the  representative  from  England,  expressing  the 
warm  attachment  of  the  British  Connexion  for  this  affiliated 
Conference  and  for  the  Church  and  work  under  its  care ;  and 
the  sentiments  he  uttered  were  cordially  reciprocated  by  the 
Conference  in  appropriate  resolutions,  and  the  same  senti- 
ments were  embodied  in  the  address  to  the  British  Con- 
ference. 

144.  The  Conference  closed  in  the  usual  form,  on  Thurs- 
day, tine  14th  of  June,  and  the  brethren  parted  with  a  re- 
newed determination  to  prosecute  the  great  work  in  which 
they  were  embarked  with  all  possible  diligence  and  fidelity. 
They  might  be  seen  in  twos  and  threes,  and  in  half  dozens, 
or  more,  or  singly,  and  solitarily — in  rail-cars  and  steamboats, 
in  stages  and  buggies,  for  days  after,  wending  their  way  to 


256  CASE,    AND 

their  several  fields  of  labor,  whether  in  city  or  country,  in 
the  cultivated  or  wilder  parts  of  the  Provinces  they 
occupied. 

145.  There  were  instances  reported  then  as  well  as  now, 
of  ministers  receiving  some  token  of  affection,  in  the  shape 
of  a  much-needed  purse,  to  help  them  on  towards  moving  and 
getting  settled  in  their  new  circuits. 

146.  Every  report  made  in  the  early  part  of  that  Confer- 
ence year  from  any  and  every  interest  of  the  Church,  was  of 
an  encouraging  kind.  Glowing  accounts  appeared  in  the 
Guardi'in  from  the  camp-meetings,  held  east,  west,  north, 
and  south,  for  single  circuits,  or  several,  or  for  districts; 
from  the  many,  the  whites,  and  the  fewer,  but  not  less  inter- 
esting, the  Indians. 

147.  The  Rev.  Samuel  D.  Rice,  as  moral  Governor  and 
Chaplain  of  the  College,  was  making  his  business  energy  to 
bear  on  the  material  and  financial  interests  of  the  institution ; 
and  an  agent  was  set  apart  to  extend  and  consummate  the 
scholarship  system.  The  annual  commencement  or  convo- 
cation was  characterized  by  interesting  exercises,  and  by  the 
graduation  of  some  who  afterward  became  distinguished  in 
the  Connexion  and  in  the  community  at  large.  Among 
these  was  Edward  B.  JRyckman,  who  had  been  converted 
while  an  undergraduate,  and  about  the  time  of  which  we 
write  began  to  preach.  He  remained,  however,  that  year  as 
a  tutor  in  the  College,  and  the  next  year  was  received  on 
trial  and  appointed  to  the  Yonge  Street  Circuit  the  following 
year.  This  worthy  descendant  of  a  worthy  German-Cana- 
dian Methodist  family  near  Dundas,  was  destined  to  become 
one  of  the  most  able  conscience-stirring  preachers,  efficient 
administrators  in  circuit  and  district,  college  professors  and 
governors,  and  city  pastors  of  the  body.  Mr,  Albert  Carman, 
now  the  Bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Methodist  denomination  in 
this  country,  graduated  at  the  same  time,  and  was  fated  to 


HIS    COTEMPOKARIES.  257 

pursue  an  almost  similar  course  to  Mr.  Ryckman's  in  his 
own  body.  B.  M.  Britton,  Esq.,  now  an  eminent  lawyer,  and 
Br.  Moses  Aikens,  also  distinguished  as  a  physician,  took  their 
degrees  in  arts  at  that  time,  preparatory  to  their  entrance  on 
their  professional  studies. .  An  undergraduate  also,  who  was 
mentioned  with  approval  for  some  prelection  which  consti- 
tuted a  part  of  the  exercises,  Wm.  R.  Parker,  then  a  devout 
student  and  local  preacher,  was  preparing  for  a  course  of 
activity  and  usefulness  nearly  parallel  to  that  of  Ryckman. 
Less  conspicuous  in  educational  matters,  but  more  conspicu- 
ous in  pastoral  ones. 

148.  The  autumn  session  of  the  college  began  under  very 
encouraging  auspices.  The  following  is  a  brief  statement  of 
its  prospects  copied  from  the  pages  of  the  Connexional  organ, 
the  Christian  Guardian  : — 

"  We  are  glad  to  learn  that  the  fall  session  of  Victoria 
College  has  commenced  with  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
students,  a  larger  number,  we  believe,  than  have  been  present 
at  the  commencement  of  any  previous  fall  and  winter 
session.  An  addition  to  this  number  is  still  expected.  The 
winter  Bession  of  the  Medical  Department  of  Victoria  Col- 
lege will  commence  in  Toronto,  on  Monday  next,  Oct.   1st." 

149.  One  of  the  most  pleasing  pieces  of  intelligence  during 
the  summer  of  1855,  was  an  account  of  the  revival  which 
broke  out  among  the  children  of  the  Richmond  Street  Sab- 
bath-school, Toronto,  which  issued  in  the  conversion  and  in- 
corporation of  an  encouraging  number  of  the  children  in  the 
society  classes,  something  very  necessary  to  the  stability  of 
youthful  converts. 

150.  There  were  notes  of  triumph  from  as  far  East  as 
Eaton,  and  from  points  in  other  directions  as  extreme  from 
the  centre.  Thus  early  was  there  an  augury  of  between  one 
and  two  thousand  net  increase,  that  was  to  crown  the  year ; 
and  yet  this  was  but  a  small  earnest  of  the  annual  gains 


258  CASE.   AND 

■which  were  to*  swell  the  augmentation    of  the   next  thirty 
years. 

151.  Mr.  Case  stood  in  the  same  relation  to  the  work  this 
year  as  last,  and  he  and  Mrs.  Case  were  cheered  by  a  beauti- 
ful letter  from  their  protege,  Henvy  Steinhaur,  on  his  way 
back  to  his  life-long  scene  of  labor  in  the  far,  far  west,  dated 
"June  the  26th,  1855,"  and  written  from  the  "Upper  Mis- 
sissippi." They  shared  the  pleasure  of  its  perusal  with  their 
friends,  by  publishing  it  in  the  Guardian. 

152.  Father  Case  was  an  exceedingly  happy  old  man. 
There  was  with  him  "  The  remembrance  of  a  life  well  spent," 
and  unlike  many  old  men,  he  was  by  no  means  querulous,  or 
inclined  to  say,  that  "  the  former  times  were  better  than 
these."  Nay,  he  exceedingly  rejoiced  in  the  material,  com- 
mercial, and  edueational  improvements  that  had  taken  place 
and  were  going  on.  Instead  of  envying  the  younger  genera- 
tion the  comforts  and  refinements  which  an  advancing 
Christian  civilization  had  brought  them,  or  grudging  them 
those  advantages,  he  was  glad  and  thankful  that  they  had 
not  to  undergo  the  inconveniences  their  fathers  had  to 
endure.  This  will  appear  from  a  letter  to  his  friend,  Rev. 
Dr.  Green,  written  near  this  time,  and  which  the  Doctor  con- 
siderately gave  to  the  public.     It  is  as  follows  :  — 

"  Rev.  and  Dear  Beo. — Our  voyage  down  the  Lake,  on  Saturday, 
was  windy,  but  off  shore,  so  that  we  were  quite  comfortable,  and 
arrived  safely  about  eight  o'clock.  A  good  boat  is  the  ' Maple  Leaf .' 
Kind  officers  and  attentive  waiters.  How  little  we  once  thought  of 
such  accommodations  in  travelling,  when  we  rode  in  mud,  knee  deep, 
in  three-or  four  days,  from  '  York '  to  Hamilton  Township  !  Then 
no  Cobourg  nor  villages  on  the  way.  Now  ten  or  twelve  flourishing 
villages,  with  churches  on  the  route  ;  and  how  little  we  thought  of  a 
Cobourg,  with  its  College,  Grammar  School,  three  Ladies'  Schools, 
and  eight  Common  Schools  ! 

' '  Yesterday  was  a  pleasant  and  devout  season  in  the  new  church — well 
filled — amon    wh       were  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  students  of  Vic- 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  259 

tons   College,— mostly  devoted   Christians — a  scene  of  thrilling  in- 
terest ! 

"  In  the  College  are  youth  from  all  parts  of  the  Province — to  return 
to  their  friends,  when  their  education  shall  be  completed,  to  bless  the 
country  in  morals,  science,  religion,  and  various  useful  professions  ! 
My  feelings  were  intense  while  addressing  this  interesting  assemblage. 
God  grant  we  may  be  increased  fourfold.  "We  look  for  it.  With  the 
Divine  blessing  it  may  be  accomplished. 

"As  ever,  affectionately. 

"Wm.  Case." 
153.  But  the  time  drew  near  when  the  younger  prophets 
were  to  have  "their  Master  taken  from  their  head." 
Although  Mr.  Case  had  passed  his  seventy-fifth  year,  he  was 
still  active  ;  he  could  harness  his  horses,  if  need  required,  and 
drive  them  also.  He,  like  all  the  early  preachers,  was  a  life- 
long equestrian.  He  often  took  short  journeys  on  horseback. 
Early  in  the  month  of  October,  or  late  in  September,  1855 
(for  I  have  found  it  impossible  to  determine  the  precise  day), 
he  had  mounted  his  horse,  at  his  own  door,  for  one  of  these 
short  excursions,  when  an  accident  occurred  of  which  we 
have  the  particulars  in  a  letter  from  the  Mission  School 
teacher  to  the  Guardian,  which  I  give  entire  : — 

"  Rev.  Sie, — As  it  appears  there  are  some  wrong  impressions  abroad 
relative  to  the  accident  that  recently  befel  the  Rev.  Mr.  Case,  some 
supposing  that  it  was  caused  by  his  horse  having  run  away,  &c. ,  he 
has  requested  me  to  state  a  few  of  th  e  particulars,  which  you  will  have 
the  kindness  to  give  an  insertion  in  the  Guardian,  for  the  satisfaction 
of  his  numerous  friends  who  have  manifested  so  much  solicitude  and 
sympathy  in  his  behalf. 

"The  accident  occurred  in  the  yard,  in  front  of  his  own  door,  as  he 
was  in  the  act  of  mounting  his  horse.  Reaching  over  to  adjust  the 
rtirrup  on  the  opposite  side  he  lost  his  balance,  and  falling  over,  frac- 
tured the  neck  of  the  thigh  bone  just  below  the  hip-joint,  leaving  the 
joint  itself  uninjured. 

"  The  fracture  was  reduced  by  Dr.  Gilchrist,  who  was  in  attendance 
the  same  evening.  By  suitable  application  inflammation  has  been  kept 
down,  so  that  he  has  suffered  but  little  pain  from  the  wounded  limb, 


260  CASE,    AND 

which  is  now  rapidly  healing,  and  bids  fair  for  timely  recovering  its 
strength. 

"  As  may  he  supposed,  however,  the  sudden  change  from  very  active 
habits  to  such  close  confinement  has  had  the  effect  of  greatly  reducing 
his  strength,  and  at  times  producing  considerable  fever,  though  for  the 
last  few  days,  I  am  happy  to  state,  he  has  been  improving  in  this 
respect ;  and  through  the  unwearied  attention  and  skilful  treatment 
of  Mrs.  Case,  we  trust  he  will  in*  time  be  fully  restored. 
"  I  am,  Sir,  yours,  &c, 

"John  Cathay. 

"Alnwick,  15th  Oct.,  1855." 

154.  In  the  Guardian  of  the  3rd  of  October,  intimation 
had  been  given  that  Mr.  Case  had  fallen  from  his  horse  and 
broken  his  leg.  In  that  of  the  1 7th,  the  letter  of  Mr.  Cathay, 

above  given,  was  published,  holding  out  hopes  that  he  might 
recover.  But  the  same  paper  contains  the  following  short 
but  sadder  editorial  notice  :— 

"  After  our  paper  had  gone  to  press,  we  heard  with  un- 
affected sorrow  of  the  death  of  our  venerable  Brother  Case, 
at  Alnwick.  The  accident  referred  to  a  few  weeks  since  was 
the  immediate  occasion  of  his  removal,  just  after  he  had 
passed  his  75th  year.     More  hereafter." 

155.  And  in  the  Guardian  of  the  31st,  in  a  long  editorial 
with  a  deep  margin  of  black,  we  have  the  particulars  of  his 
funeral,  of  which  we  give  a  paragraph  below  : — 

"  Shortly  after  the  Guardian  was  put  to  press  last  week 
the  mournful  intelligence  was  received  that  our  venerable 
and  beloved  "  Father  Case  "  had  gone  to  his  eternal  reward. 
A  brief  notice  of  this  event  was  inserted  in  the  numbers  of 
the  paper  printed  after  the  intelligence  of  his  death  was  rer 
ceived.  We  had  been  led  to  hope,  from  the  favorable  account 
given  in  the  Guardian  of  the  week  before  last,  that  his  re- 
covery was  probable,  and  that  he  would  be  spared  a  little 
longer  to  his  friends  and  the  church ;  but  it  appears  that 
he   began  rapidly  to  sink  very  soon  after  the  letter  was. 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  261 

written  by  Mr.  Cathay.  The  exhaustion  was  occasioned  by 
bed  sores,  which  brought  on  hectic  fever,  and  hastened  his 
death.  We  understand  that  while  his  consciousness  con- 
tinued he  still  entertained  the  hope  that  he  would  recover. 
During  the  last  twenty-four  hours  he  was  scarcely  conscious 
of  his  state,  except  at  times  for  a  few  moments,  when  his  mind 
appeared  quite  clear ;  but  even  to  the  last  he  could  be  roused 
by  Mrs.  Case.  He  died  on  Friday,  the  19th  inst.,  about  one 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  His  mortal  remains  were  consigned 
to  their  last  resting-place  on  the  following  Sabbath,  at  eleven 
o'clock,  after  a  sermon  suitable  to  the  occasion,  by  the  Rev. 
J.  Carroll,  of  Belleville.  The  Revs.  C.  Vandusen,  S.  D. 
Rice,  J.  Beatty,  S.  8.  Nelles,  and  Jas.  Musgrove  were  also 
present  at  the  funeral." 

156.  The  way  in  which  so  many  ministers  chanced  to  be 
present,  in  a  place  so  much  out  of  the  way  and  upon  such 
short  notice,  was  as  follows : — The  Missionary  and  Special 
Conference  Committees  had  been  sitting  in  Toronto,  and 
their  session  covered  the  time  of  Mr.  Case's  death.  There 
was  then  no  railway  down  the  margin  of  the  lake.  The 
brethren  whose  stations  were  in  the  country  between  Cobourg 
and  Belleville,  came  from  Toronto  to  the  former  place  by 
steamer,  and  expected  to  take  the  stage  at  Cobourg  for  their 
homes ;  but  a  head-wind  kept  them  back,  and  when  they 
arrived  at  the  wharf,  they  found  the  Brighton  and  Belleville 
stage  had  left.  They  were,  therefore,  detained  over  Sunday, 
upon  which  day  they  heard  their  venerated  friend  was  to  be 
buried.  A  number  of  them  accepted  the  kind  invitation  of 
the  Governor  of  the  College  and  drove  the  intervening 
twelve  or  fifteen  miles  in  his  double-horse  waggon  to  the 
funeral  at  Alderville.  Just  as  the)'  arrived,  the  Rev.  James 
Musgrove,  Missionary  and  Chairman  of  the  District,  was 
about  to  preach,  when  he  insisted  on  men  who  were  his 
seniors  in  the  work,  and  who  had  known  the  deceased  longer, 


262  CASE,    AND 

should  address  the  people  on  the  occasion.  It  was  finally- 
arranged  that  Mr.  Carroll  should  preach,  and  the  Rev.  John 
Beatty  follow  with  an  address,  and  Mr.  Musgrove  read  the 
burial  service  at  the  grave.  There  was  a  large  concourse  of 
whites  and  Indians  who  assembled  to  pay  their  last  tribute 
of  affection  and  respect  to  their  friend  and  father ;  and  there 
was  the  stricken  widow  of  the  departed.  The  text  on  which 
the  sermon  was  based  embraced  the  triumphant  language  of 
the  great  Apostle  of  the  Gentiles,  "  I  have  fought  a  good  fight; 
I  have  finished  my  course  ;  I  have  kept  the  faith  ;  henceforth 
there  is  laid  up  for  me  a  crown  of  righteousness,  which  the 
Lord,  the  righteous  Judge,  shall  give  me  at  that  day,  and  not 
to  me  only,  but  unto  all  them  also  that  love  His  appearing." 
2nd  Timothy,  fourth  chapter,  seventh  and  eighth  verses. 
The  faithful  minister  at  death,  his  retrospect  and 
prospect,  was  the  theme  of  the  discourse. 

157.  From  the  many  aspects,  and  scenes,  and  circum- 
stances in  which  our  central  figure  has  been  presented  during 
the  fifty  years  comprised  in  this  biographical  history,  any  ex- 
tended account  of  his  character  will  not  be  required.  One 
short  paragraph  from  his  official  obituary  will  be  sufficient : — 

"  His  body  was  never  robust,  and  his  habits  were  always 
temperate.  His  presence  was  dignified  and  prepossessing. 
His  mind  though  never  trained  scholastically,  was  vigorous, 
searching,  and  tenacious,  and  by  much  reading,  observation, 
and  experience  it  became  enriched  with  knowledge  as  prac- 
tical as  it  was  adapted  for  all  the  purposes  which  his  diversi- 
fied positions  in  the  Methodist  Church  required.  His  ac- 
quaintance with  Wesleyan  doctrines,  discipline,  and  usages 
was  correct  and  comprehensive  ;  his  publication  of  those 
doctrines  judicious,  experimental,  persuasive  -often  pathetic; 
his  enforcement  of  that  discipline  in  its  integrity,  while  there 
was  no  lack  of  fidelity  to  our  incomparable  system,  was  in- 
variably marked  with  moderation  and  caution  ;  his  pastoral 


HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  263 

assiduities  for  adults  and  youth,  parents  and  children,  were 
spiritual,  fatherly,  and  unremitting.  He  was  a  warm  well- 
wisher  of  our  ministry  and  Connexional  institutions ;  and 
in  his  entire  intercourse  with  the  ministers  he  loved, 
especially  at  the  sessions  of  Conference,  there  was  a  good 
sense,  a  prudence,  and  a  heartiness  which  made  all  revere 
and  love  him." 

158.  His  admiring  friends  in  Belleville,  almost  immedi- 
ately, placed  a  tablet  to  his  memory  in  the  old  Pinnacle 
Street  Church,  in  which  he  had  often  ministered  ;  which 
tablet  has  been  transferred  to  the  Great  Bridge  Street 
Church,  since  its  erection.  Although  tardily  performed,  a 
monument  to  his  memory  was  erected  by  his  ministerial 
brethren,  at  Alderville,  where  he  labored  so  long  and  where 
he  died,  the  inscription  on  which  is  the  following : — 

[Since  writing  the  above,  it  has  been  ascertained  the 
matter  has  been  delayed,  and  the  inscription  we  sent  for, 
and  expected  to  give,  has  not  been  executed,  and  therefore, 
cannot  be  given.] 


INDEX. 


A. 
Abbott,  Rev.  Jacob,  reference  to,  i.  160. 
Adams,   Rev.   Alvah,    introduced,  iii.  206;  R.   on  T.,  210. 

Perth,    273 ;    Bonshire,     301  ;     Bytown,     346,     389  ; 

Augusta,  415  ;  located,  444. 

Adams,  Rev.  Ezra,  his  account  of  Enoch  Burdick,  i.  267; 
ditto  of  Densmore,  269  ;  of  H.  Ryan,  285  ;  his  own 
history,  286  ;  R.  on  T.,  ii.  1  ;  Bay  Quinte,  11  ;  Ottawa, 
184 ;  ord.  217;  Hallowell,  331 ;  Success  on  Thames,  355  ; 
Niagara,  416  ;  located,  iii.  3  :  readm.,  277  ;  Y.  St.,  296; 
P.  Elder's  letter,  334  ;  Muncey,  365  ;  death  of  Mrs.  A., 
385;  fully  occupied,  417;  discouragements,  iv.  125; 
superannuated,  151. 

Adams,  Mr.  Joshua,  short  account  of,  ii.  179. 

Adams,  Rev.  Lucius,  a  supply,  v.  149  ;  obit.,  151. 

Adams,  Rev.   Zenas,   short  notice  of,  ii.    189  ;  his   b.    and 

conv.,  190;  death,  194;  old  Toronto  Circuit,  iii.  414. 
Addoms,  Rev.  John  T.,  short  notice  of,  i.  270  ;  located,  280. 
Address  to  the  Gov.   of  Can.,   ii.   271  ;  ans.,   273  ;  to  Can. 

Meth.  from  Am.  G.  Conf.,  284  ;  to  Sir  F.  B.  Head,  iv. 

120;  dissatisfaction  on  account  of,    125  ;  to  Brit.  Wes. 

Conf.,  200  ;  of  Rev.  Wm.  Case  before  Am.  Genl.  Conf., 

iv.  69. 
Adelaide  Academy,  v.  40. 
Adelaide  Mission,  v.  17. 
Adherents  of  Royalty,  i.  3. 
Adventism,     Dr.     Cooney's  account    of,    iv.    380 ;   in    Can. 

East,  408. 
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266  CASE,   AND   HIS  COTEMPORARIES. 

Adventures  of'Peter  Yan  Nest,  i.  76  ;  of  itinerants,  91 ;  of 
Alex.  Rose,  129;  of  Rev.  Win.  Case,  ii.  43  ;  of  John 
Dempster,  58  ;  of  Geo  Ferguson,  69  ;  midst  rocks  and 
mud,  469 ;  of  R.  Phelps,  iii.  291  ;  of  Benham  and 
Indian  boy,  368  ;  of  Tomkins  and  Knight,  437. 

Aikens,  Mr.  James,  short  account  of,  ii.  363  ;  his  sons,  363; 
James  C,  one  of  the  first  merit  students  of  Vic.  Coll., 
iv.  374. 

Aikins,  Rev.  James,  notice  of,  i.  15  ;  obit.,  62  ;  correction, 
329. 

Aikins,  Moses,  a  graduate,  v.  257. 

Aikman,  John  and  Hannah,  i.  161. 

Albio  i  Circivt,  its  first  supply,  iii.  268;  Huston,  332;  S. 
Rose,  381  ;  G.  Miller,  414. 

Alder,  Rpv.  Robert,  portraiture  of,  iii.  88;  Montreal,  140 
208  ;  Exeter  Hall  Missy  Meeting,  305  ;  again  in  Can., 
351  ;  his  views  on  the  union,  392  ;  at  the  Couf.,  440; 
his  third  mission  to  Canada,  iv.  237  ;  his  letter  to  Lord 
John  Russell,  303 ;  at  Toronto  Conf.,  v.  1  ;  Presi- 
dent, 2. 

Alderville  Indian  Mission,  why  so  named,  iv.  128  ;  manual 
labor  school.  209;  Case  there  in  secession,  375  ;  num- 
ber of  members,  407;  an  assistant,  v.  73;  Case  and 
lliiill.urt,  105. 

Allegorical  pnaching,  i.  131. 

Allison,  Rev.  Cyrus  R. ,  poitraiture  of,  iii.  135;  R.  on  T., 
143  ;  his  first  Circuit.  203  ;  Ottawa,  247,  272  ;  among 
the  Indians,  296  ;  Rideau,  347  ;  agent,  418  ;  letter 
from,  iv.  48;  stewardship,  117;  success,  155;  sup'd, 
129. 

America  and  American  Methodism,  Dr.  Jobson's  quoted, 
ii.  84. 

American  Gen'l  Conf.,  resolutions  on  Can.  Meth.,  ii.  284- 
287  ;  Delegates  to,  iii.  169  ;  iv.  6  ;  Cincinnatti  Conf.  and 
Can.  Episcopals,  Mr.  Lord's  letter,  100  ;  comments  on, 
134  ;  decisions,  399. 

American  Republic,  i.  3 ;  Loyalists  leave,  3  ;  independence 
of,  5  ;  war  declared  with,  246  ;  continuance  of,  257. 


INDEX.  267 

American  Meth.  Mag.,  publication  of,  ii.  131. 

Ames,  Rev.  William,  short  account  of,  iv.  363 ;  his  work  at 
S.  and  W.,  v.  125. 

Amherstburg  Circuit  formed,  iii.  129  ;  E.  Stoney,  150,  245  ; 
Messmore,  266;  Whiting,  337;  Harmon,  385 ;  interesting 
news,  470. 

A  night  in  the  woods,  i.  43,   106  ;  ii.  18. 

Ancaster  Circuit  and  Wm.  Case,  i.  159  ;  extent  of,  and  lead- 
ing laymen,  163  ;  further  notice  of,  ii.  10  ;  labors  of 
Youmans  and  Culp,  40;  of  Isaac  B.  Smith,  130  ;  large 
decrease,  416;  Smith  and  Culp,  453;  At  wood,  iii.  11  ; 
Gatchell,  56;  its  boundaries,  125;  success,  126;  Mad- 
den and  G.,  148  ;  death  of  Slater,  243  ;  W.  and  S., 
265  ;  increase,  292 ;  revivals,  329  ;  a  small  circuit,  380 ; 
Wilkinson,  413  ;  Evans  and  Watson,  454. 

Ancaster  Conference  of  1829,  where  held,  etc.,  iii.  253;  de- 
fections, 254;  subjects  considered  at,  256. 

Andrews,  Rev.  Alfred,  portraiture  of,  v.  252. 

Andrews,  Rev.  Wm.,  introduction  of,  iv.  407  ;  a  supply, 
466  ;  in  Can.  E.,  v.  156. 

Anecdote  of  Wm.  Losee,  i.  7;  of  N.  Bangs,  31 ;  of  Dunham,  37  ; 
of  Dunham  and  the  squire,  38  ;  of  Dunham  and  the  Lu- 
theran, 38;  of  the  crying  child,  39;  of  frontier  life,  91;ofa 
fiddler,  95  ;  of  H.  Ryan,  286,  287  ;  of  Peter  Bowslaugh, 
161,  303  ;  of  John  Piatt  and  Wm.  Losee,  ii.  51  ;  of  a  scep- 
tic, 57;  of  a  wicked  father,  65;  good  sauce,  67;  for- 
getting to  pray  for  onions,  68  ;  of  Isaac  Puffer,  137  ;  of 
an  Indian's  gratitude,  142;  of  a  bad  road,  178;  scarce 
timber,  250. 

Anson,  Rev.  Wm.,  notice  of,  i.  15,  16  ;  again,  64 ;  his 
death,  66. 

Appeal  of  C.  Meth.  Epis.  Ch.  to  Genl.  Conf.,  and  its  results, 
iv.  399. 

Armstrong,  Rev.  Andrew,  short  account  of,  v.  156. 

Armstrong,  Rev.  James,  a  supply,  iv.  454. 

Armstrong,  Mr.  James  R.,  a  guide,  iii.  71  ;  a  director,    168. 

Armstrong,  Rev.  John,  a  supply,  iii.  58  ;  Niagara,  149  ; 
Long   Point,    244;  on   trial,    253;  discontinued,  278  ; 


268  CASE,   AND   HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES. 

Dumfries,  292,  311 ;  L.  Point,  336;  Nelson,  381; 
Ancaster,  455. 

Armstrong,  Rev.  John  B.,  a  supply,  v.  37. 

Armstrong,  Rev.  Noble,  a  glimpse  of,  v.  30. 

Articles  of  Union  between  the  Eng.  and  Can.  Methodists,  iii. 
405  ;  also,  v.  3. 

Arnold,  Rev.  John,  short  account  of,  ii.  14  ;  sup'd,  37. 

Asance,  John,  sad  account  of,  iii.  180. 

Asbury,  Bishop,  his  com.  to  Garretson's  band,  i.  6 ;  letter  to, 
from  Case,  180  ;  his  visit  to  Canada,  228  ;  accident  to, 
232  ;  his  estimate  of  Canada,  233  ;  preaches  in  King- 
ston, 234 ;  letters  to  Rev.  J.  Benson,  256  ;  to  James 
Mitchell,  332,  333  ;  his  death,  ii.  27  ;  his  burial,  29. 

Ashgrove  ;  where  and  by  whom  settled,  i.  17  ;  seat  of  N.  Y. 
Conf.,  17  ;  District,  144. 

Asphodel  Mission,  its  first  missionary,  iv.  363;  name  changed 

and  why,  447. 
Atkinson,  Rev.  Thomas,  his  obituary,  v.  249. 
Atley,  Father,  a  good  supply,  v.  195. 
*  Atwood,  Rev.  John  S.,  portraiture  of,  iii.  104  ;  Whitby,  108 ; 

on  trial,  143 ;  a  mighty  revival,  191 ;  not  at  home,  269 ; 

not  in  time,  292  ;  removal,  337  ;  a  soul-saving  assistant, 

384  ;  ill-health,  412  ;  Canboro',  454  ;  located,  iv.  116. 

Atwood,  Rev.  Joseph,  on  trial,  ii.  393 ;  his  character,  466 ; 
removal,  iii.  3. 

Augusta  District  formed,  iii.  98  ;  account  of,  132  ;  divided t 
269  ;  its.  P.  Eld.,  297,  344 ;  stations  for  1835,  iv.  42 ; 
divided,  198  ;  its  P.  E.,  258,  364. 

Augusta,  Methodist  settlers  in,  i.  6  ;  Circuit  formed,  158 ;  its 
extent,  ii.  12  ;  Isaac  Puffer,   134;  successful  year,  178 
Goodwin  and  Smith,  329  ;  opposition,  471 ;  increase,  iii. 
35;    Metcalf,     133;    alteration    of    boundaries,    204 
revival,  246  ;  two  popular  men,  345  ;  good  tidings,  390 
two  young  men,  415  ;  united  to  Prescott,  iv.  42  ;  seces- 
sion, 43;  Manly    taken   away,   46;    defection,  125;  a 
supply,  364 ;  revival,  v.  77. 

Ault,  Mrs.  Jacob,  i.  172. 


INDEX.  269 

Austin,  Mr.  John,  short  notice  of,  ii.  363. 
Axtle,  Rev.  Nathan  C,  a  'widow's  son,  iv.  473. 
Aylesworth,  Mr.  Bowen,  ii.  48. 
Aylesworth,  Rev.  Isaac  B.,  portraiture  of,  iv.  390. 
Ayre,  Rev.  Philip,  appointed  to  Stanstead,  i.  140  ;  located, 
330. 

B. 

Badger,  Major,  some  account  of,  ii.  147-151. 

Bagot,  Sir  Charles,  death  of,  iv.  372. 

Bailey,  Mr.  John,  short  notice  of,  i.  42  ;  his  sister  Chloe, 
124;  his  home,  128. 

Bailey,  Rev.  John,  a  supply,  iii.  265  ;  his  history,  277  ;  on 
trial,  278;  his  colleague,  293;  another,  337;  a  new 
Circuit,  385;  still  on  trial,  413;  in  opposition;  422. 

Baltimore  Methodism,  i.  151. 

Bamford,  Robert,  a  supply,  iii.  38  ;  applies  for  orders,  76  ; 
Rice  Lake,  107  ;  his  visit  to  the  Indians,   112. 

Bangs,  Rev.  Nathan.  Conf.  of  1802  sends  him  to  Can.,  i.  16  ; 
Oswegotchie,  19  ;  his  early  history,  27  ;  his  opinion  of 
Seth  Crowell,  61  ;  his  trust  in  Providence,  91  ;  his 
frontier  life,  93  ;  conversion  of  a  fiddler,  95  ;  escape  from 
wicked  men,  96  ;  at  an  Indian  dance,  98  ;  a  drunkard  pa- 
cified, 101  ;  typhoid  fever,  102 ;  a  night  in  the  Long  "\Y  cods, 
106;  his  marriage,  125;  his  account  of  Wm.  Snyder, 
134;  his  work  in  Quebec,  136;  providential  supplies, 
138;  goes  to  Montreal,  LIS;  to  Niagara,  144;  leaves 
Canada,  150  ;  goes  to  the  Gen'l.  Conf.,  151  ;  I  >r.  Luckey's 
opin.,  152  ;  volunteers  for  Montreal,  271  ,  his  loss  1o 
Canada,  subsequent  career  and  death,  272  ;  on  the  origin 
of  the  Reformed  Secession,  ii.  4*;  Haldimand  Carnp-m., 
iii.  74  ;  preaches  at  the  Conf'.,  94  ;  again  visits  Can. 
Conf.,  142  ;  his  views  on  union,  393  ;  visits  the  Conf. 
in  Brockville,  v.  66  ;  his  comments,  67. 

Barber,  Rev.  Isaac,  a  supply,  53  ;  a  recruit,  62  ;  his  ord.i 
v.  140;  in  Can.  East,  212. 

Barber,  Rev.  Ozias,  a  supply,  iv.  344;  his  antecedents,  347  ; 
Dalhousie  Mission,  367  ;  at  Ingersoll,  v.  184. 


270  CASE,  AND  HIS  COTEMPORAMES. 

Barlow,  Rev.  "William,  Ass't.  Secy,  at  Elizabethtown  Conf., 
ii.  90;  on  trial,  100;  work  in  Montreal,  132;  with- 
drawal and  subsequent  career,  353. 

Barnes,  Elijah,  a  "faithful  class-leader,  iv.  474. 

Barnes,  Miss  Eliza,  short  account  of,  iii.  169  ;  Rice  Lake  In- 
dians, 193;  visit  to  N.  Y.,  222;  Lake  Simcoe,  302-; 
Dorcas  Society,  321. 

Barnston  Circuit,  how  supplied,  iii.  50 ;  united  with  Stan- 
stead,  89. 

Barton,  Rev.  King,  from  the  Irish  Conf.,  iii.  311  ;  his  death, 
iv.  2. 

Barrie  District,  first  named  in  1850,  v.  69 ;  its  supplies,  70, 
98;  a  miss'y.  Dist.,  123;  "one  wanted,"  153;  its  sta- 
tions and  men  in  1854,  197. 

Barrie  Mission,  its  first  missionary,  iv.  281  ;  T.  McMullen, 
320 ;  two  laborers,  339  ;  Wm.  Steer,  375 ;  49  mem- 
bers, iv.  466 ;  Camp-meeting,  v.  107  ;  well  manned, 
197. 

Barry,  Rev.  John,  York,  iii.  395  ;  Montreal,  437. 

Baxter,  Rev.  John,  a  supply,  iii.  337  ;  on  trial,  364 ;  Hal- 
lowell,  386;  a  helper,  413  ;  Canboro',  454;  ord.,iv.  1 ; 
Gosfield,  16  ;  Waterloo,  124;  Albion,  320,  338  ;  need- 
ing a  colleague,  388  ;  Nanticoke,  v.  73  ;  superannuated, 
183. 

Baxter,  Rev.  Michael,  his  portraiture,  iv.  364  ;  Madoe,  v. 
201. 

Bay  Quinte  Circuit,  first  meetings,  i.  7 ;  in  the  list  of  sta- 
tions, 19  ;  D.  Pickett  in  1801,  26  ;  its  extent,  111 ;  in- 
crease of  members,  118  ;  revival,  ii.  11 ;  Madden  and 
R.,  138  ;  sad  event,  245  ;  Jeffers  and  Spore,  325  ;  two 
Americans,  376  ;  death  of  Peale,  421  ;  a  year  of  tur- 
moil, 468 ;  tokens  for  good,  iii.  34 ;  glorious  revival, 
69  ;  twin  spirits,  78 ;  appointments  on,  102  ;  Kingston 
set  off,  187;  changes,  233;  ably  served,  267;  G.  Fer-, 
guson,  295,  342;  Whiting  and  Poole,  386;  W.  and 
Musgrove,  415  ;  interesting  letter,  468 ;  New  chureh, 
iv.  32  ;  well  supplied,  123  ;  success,  124. 

Bay  Quinte  District,  how  formed,  ii.   372  ;    a  prosperous 


INDEX.  271 

year,  418  ;  its  stations  and  men,  466  ;  Case,  P.  E.,  iii. 
5  ;  particulars  from,  25  ;  more,  66-69  ;  further  reports, 
150 ;  W.  Ryerson,  P.  E.,  218,  266,  2'J5,  338  ; 
changes,  386  ;  its  station,  and  men,  456  ;  state  of  the 
work,  482  ;  stations  for  1835,  iv.  30  ;  the  Dist.  Meet- 
ing, 258  ;  stations  for  1841,  339  ;  a  gain  of,  224,  390. 

Beam,  John,  some  account  of,  i.  289. 

Beatty,  .Rev.  John,  short  notice  of,  ii.  364  ;  iii.  18  ;  a  supply, 
108  ;  on  trial,  210  ;  Newmarket,  238  ;  Belleville,  267, 
295  ;  London,  413  ;  Toronto,  455  ;  Yonge  St.,  iv.  23  ; 
Steward  U.  C.  Academy,  156. 

Beckwith,  Rev.  James,  his  obit.,  iii.  308. 

Beecham,  Rev.  John,  his  visit  to  Can.  Conf.,  v.  238  ;  refer- 
ence to  his  address,  255. 

Belton,  Rev.  Samuel,  on  trial,  iii.  140;  early  life,  145  ;  ap- 
pearance, 151  ;  York,  226  ;  Westminster,  305  ;  Hallo- 
well,  374  ;  his  zenith,  419  ;  increase,  466  ;  Belleville, 
iii.  33;  Perth,  85;  B.  Quinte,  100;  Del.  to  Gen'l. 
Conf.,  170;  Earnestown,  187;  Fort  George,  241; 
gracious  revival,  264 ;  Westminster,  293 ;  Ancaster, 
329  ;  Nelson,  381  ;  L.  Simcoe,  417  ;  Dumfries,  iv.  26  ; 
retired,  117;  sup'd.,  v.  182. 

Belleville,  Circuit  org.,  ii.  139  ;  con  v.  of  Asa  Yeomans,  171  ; 
a  vacancy,  254;  Thos.  Madden,  324;  Jeffers  and  W., 
374;  George  Poole,  467;  no  increase,  iii.  33;  Indian 
members,  69  ;  D.  B.,  105  ;  a  glorious  revival.  190  ;  suc- 
cess and  extension,  233  ;  well  manned,  295  ;  5  new 
classes,  341  ;  a  station,  415  ;  letter  from  H.  W,  404  ; 
encouraging,  iv.  36  ;  vicissitudes,  192  ;  H.  Lauton, 
487;  Gemley  and  revival,  v.  17  ;  Geo.  Young,  201. 

Belleville  Conference  of  1830,  iii.  276  ;  of  1836,  iv.  115  ;  of 
1840,  287 ;  of  1848,  v.  24 ;  of  1854,  169. 

Belleville  District,  stations  all  full,  v.  37  ;  one  vacancy,  53  ; 
its  needs,  74  ;,  how  supplied,  105.  128  ;  unusual  supply, 
153  ;  its  stations  and  men  in  1854,  201. 

Benham,  Rev.  John  B.,  first  mention  of,  ii.  406  ;  a  student 
at  Cazenovia,  iii.  168;  supplies  Cobourg,  170:  at  Rice 
Lake,  174  ;  Case's  letter  to.  178;  Grape  I.,  189  ;  amiss'y. 
helper,  232  ;  his  piety,  260 ;  L.  Simcoe,  262  ;  visit  to 


272  CASE,  AND    HIS    C0TEMP0KARIES. 

• 

L.  Huron,  281 ;  his  school  at  Sahkung,  288  ;  visit  to  L. 
Simcoe,  302  ;  letter  from  Case,  325 ;  Saugeen,  366 ; 
Journal,  367;  perilous  voyage,  368  ;  reasons  for  his  re- 
moval, 377  ;  Oneida  Conf.,  his  subseq.  labors  and  death, 
378. 

Bennett,  Rev.  Leonard,  Memoir  of,  i.  275. 

Bennett  and  Black,  Messrs.,  at  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.,  ii.  31. 

Benson,  Rev.  J.,  letter  to,  i.  175  ;  another,  203. 

Bentonville  and  Russeltown  Circuit  formed,  ii.  437 ;  James 
Booth,  485  ;  iii.  46. 

Berney,  Rev.  Daniel,  introduced,  iii.  442 ;  on  trial,  iv.  2 ; 
ord.,  45;  letter  from,  56  ;  unfaithful,  454. 

Berry,  Rev.  Francis,  his  portraiture,  v.  116. 

Berry,  Rev.  James,  short  account  of,  v.  192. 

Betts,  Rev.  Jonathan  E.,  portraiture  of,  v.  253. 

Bettis,  David,  short  notice  of,  iv.  451. 

Bevitt,  Rev.  Thomas,  a  good  supply,  iii.  257  ;  on  trial,  277 ; 
an  able  preacher,  296 ;  his  circuit  described,  339  ;  Co- 
bourg,  415;  letter  from,  iv.  9;  Sec'y.  of  Conf.,  357; 
Chairman,  358;  Sec'y.  again,  444;  President,  472; 
cheering  account  from,  v.  78;  Thorold,  182. 

Beynon,  Rev.  Geo.  portraiture  of,  iv.  293. 

Bid  well,  Marshall  S.,  Esq.,  at  a  miss'y.  meeting,  iii.  167;  a 
leading  Reformer,  iv.  184. 

Biggar,  Rev.  Hamilton,  first  glimpse  of,  iii.  152 ;  at  Rice 
Lake,  160,  193;  on  trial,  210;  Hallowell,  267;  in 
charge,  296 ;  London,  337 ;  Westminster,  384 ;  L. 
Point,  413,  454;  "four  days'"  meeting,  iv.  38;  Sec. 
of  Conf,  472;  sup'd.,  v.  184. 

Binning,  Rev.  We,  short  notice  of,  ii.  108. 

Bishop,  Rev.  Luther,  a  stranger,  i.  16 ;  Long  Point,  19  ; 
slender  memorials,  34  ;  he  returns  to  U.  S.,  155. 

Bissel,  Rev.  Geo.,  on  trial,  iii.  1 ;  Ottawa,  41 ;  Camp-meet- 
ing, 45  ;  woods  and  swamps,  75  ;  a  long  move,  136  ; 
married,  207  ;  revival,  247  ;  Bay  Quinte,  267  ;  wearing 
well,  295  ;  large  increase,  332 ;  Toronto  Circuit,  366 ; 
he  went  not,  414  ;  he  located,  444. 


INDEX.  273 

Black,  Rev.  John,  portraiture  of,  ii.  474 ;  his  journal,  477 ; 
took  the  new  part,  iii.  38  ;  on  trial,  53  ;  no  sombre 
shade,  73  ;  extract  from  diary,  74  ;  Black  and  Green, 
122;  in  orders,  143;  amusing  examination,  144;  two 
colleagues,  195;  Perth,  249;  Mississippi,  273;  old 
starting  place,  299 ;  ever-loved,  345  ;  Ottawa,  389  ; 
wants  a  colleague,  416  ;  letter  to  Guardian,  432  ;  happy 
results  of  union,  iv.  38  ;  two  letters  from,  39  ;  Bay 
Quinte,  123  ;  Murray,  339  ;  Bawdon,  v.  201. 

Black  River  Conference,  visitors  from,  iv.  187. 

Blackstock,  Rev.  Moses,  a  local  preacher,  ii.  323 ;  further 
notice  of,  iii.  75  ;  withdrew,  237  ;  again  received,  iv. 
295  ;  early  life,  296  ;  removal,  297. 

Blackstock.  Rev.  Wm.  S.,  portrayed,  iv.  472 ;  Yonge  St.,  v. 
182. 

Blaker,  Geo.,  a  native  helper,  v.  152. 

Bloomfield,  its  first  Meth.  class,  ii.  420. 

Boardman,  Rev.  Elijah,  a  new  import,  ii.  218  ;  probabilities, 
255  ;  U.  S.,  352. 

Boehm,  Rev.  Henry,  his  account  of  Joseph  Samson,  i.  173; 
of  Bishop  Asbury's  visit  to  Canada,  228  ;  preaching  in 
Matilda,  232  ;  his  touching  account  of  Asbury's  funeral, 
ii.  29. 

Boice,  Mrs.,  incident  related  by,  ii.  42. 

Bonqhire  Mission,  and  Geo.  Farr,  iii.  249  ;  A.  Adams,  301  ; 
James  Brock,  347  ;  far  off,  390. 

Bond,  Rev.  Stephen,  portraiture  of,  v.  253. 

Book  Concern,  N.  Y.,  claims  on,  iv.  5  ;  complaints,  120. 

Book  Estub.  Toronto,  Report  of,  iii.  444  ;  origin  of  Commit- 
tee, iv.  152;  its  Steward,  152,  191. 

Booth,  Rev.  James,  notice  of  his  arrival,  ii.  74  ;  short  notice 
of,  79  ;  in  perils  often,  120  ;  Kingston,  338  ;  Quebec 
390  ;  indefatigable,  437  ;  difficulties,  486  ;  decrease,  iii. 
48;  Quebec,  88,  140;  Kingston,  209  ;  Stanstead,  274 
Barnston,  308;  Stafford,  351  ;  an  old  field,  396,  438 
sup'd.,  iv.  190;  withdrew,  334;  again  effective,  486 
obit.,  v.  180. 

Borland,   Rev.  John,  quoted,  ii.   75  ;    again,  77  ;  an  ass't. 
12* 


274  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

miss'y.,  iv.*108  ;  early  life,  144 ;  Melbourne,  234  ;  quo- 
tations from,  236,  284,  329  ;  Montreal,  355  ;  trials  and 
difficulties,  411  ;  his  account  of  Foster,  439  ;  Melb.,  470, 
489  ;  letter  from,  v.  Ill;  another,  137;  Delegate  to 
Can.  Conf,  165;  at  the  Conf.  of  1854,  169;  Sec.  of 
Dist.,  211;  Toronto,  182. 

Botfield,  Rev.  James,  on  trial,  ii.  329  ;  early  life,  334  ;  plans 
thwarted,  351. 

Botterell,  Rev.  E.,  introduced,  iv.  107;  W.  Can.,  464;  Lon- 
don, v.  14  ;  P.  E.  Isl.,  38. 

Bottome,  Frank,  a  supply,  v.  53. 

Bo  wen,  Rev.  Elias,  D.D.,  short  notice  of,  ii.  185  ;  further 
account,  229. 

Bowman's  Chapel,  i.  159  ;  names  of  first  class,  160;  Confer- 
ence there,  iii.  253. 

Bowman,  Peter,  some  account  of,  i.  159. 

Bowmanville,  effects  of  disunion,  iv.  484  ;  a  new  church,  v. 
79  ;  its  men  in  1854,  199. 

Bowslaugh,  Peter,  a  zealous  man,  i.  161  ;  anecdote  of,  303 ; 
another  glimpse,  iv.  371. 

Boyce,  Mr.  Jehoida,  his  home,  iii.  75  ;  his  death,  iv.  106. 

Braden,  Wm.,  short  notice  of,  v.  178;  a  helper,  220. 

Bradford,  a  new  church  opened,  v.  107. 

Brant,  Chief  John,  his  sympathy,  iii.  333 ;  his  death  and 
burial,  379. 

Brant,  Colonel,  short  notice  of,  i.  164. 

Brantford,  its  first  class,  iii.  14  ;  its  first  church,  iv.  14  ;  sep. 
from  the  mission,  122  ;  a  brick  church  built,  342  ;  N. 
F.  E.  there,  v.  184. 

Brantford  District,  first  org.  in  1848,  v.  35  ;  account  of,  53 ; 
one  to  be  sent,  72  ;  omissions,  102  ;  Wm,  Ryerson  its 
chairman,  147;  its  stations  and  men,  184. 

Breckenridge,  David,  junr.,  short  account  of,  ii.  468  ;  Smith's 
Creek,  iii.  31 ;  Cobourg,  73  ;  unwilling  to  wait,  80 ;  a 
coming  storm,  105  ;  defection,  106. 

Breckenridge,  David,  senr.,  portraiture  of,  i.  128;  a  mar. 


INDEX.  275 

riage,    177;  hospitality  of,  232;  ceases  to   preach,  iii. 

35  ;  an  exception,  80. 
Breden,  Rev.  John,  his  portraiture,  iv.  376  ;  Goderich,  406  ; 

letter  from,  436  ;  Peterboro',  486  ;  St.  Thomas,  v.  101  ; 

Toronto  East,  181. 
Brewster,  Rev.  Robert,  short  reference  to,  v.  9 1  ;  Winchester 

205. 
Briden,  Rev.  Wm.,  some  account  of,  v.  203. 
Briggs,  Rev.  Joel,  his  early  life,  v.  71 ;  Cookstown,  197. 

British  Wes.  Conf.,  letter  of,  to  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf,  ii.  31  ;  Ca- 
nada stations,  37;  friendly  relations  desired,  iii.  216; 
union  projected,  353  ;  (see  Meth.  Union)  organization 
of  a  Dist.  for  C.  W.,  iv.  325  ;  stations,  325  ;  C.  W. 
Dist.,  341  ;  dissolution,  349  ;  the  Dist.  in  1842,  374  ; 
Del.  to  Eng.,  v.  50. 

Britton,  Byron  M.,  an  eminent  lawyer,  v.  257. 

Brock  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  415  ;  D.  Hardie,  456  ;  one 

wanted,  iv.  28  ;  a  new  supply,  252  ;  G.  S.  useful,  363  ; 

two  hired  1.  p's.,  389  ;  G.  T.  R.,  v.  198. 

Brock,  Rev.  James,  introduced,  iii.  300;  on  trial,  311  ,  iv 
single  man,  347  ;  Mississippi,  389;  more  labor,  416; 
his  address,  iv.  315  ;  visit  to  Can.  Conf.,  v.  118  ;  Rep. 
to  Conf,  136;  Odelltown,  211. 

Brockville,  revival  in,  iii.  134;  annexed,  204;  a  new  crea- 
tion, 246  ;  Green  and  Williams,  299  ;  a  station,  345  ; 
Wm.  Smith,  415  ;  a  blessed  shower,  iv.  44  ;  united  with 
Elizabethtown,  154  :  Conv.  of  D.  B.  Madden,  259  ;  re- 
vival, iv.  308 ;  R.  Whiting,  v.  205. 

Brockville  Conference  of  1844,  iv.  417;  of  1850,  v.  61. 

Brockville  District,  first  named,  v.  37  ;  stations  well  manned, 
75;  complete,  106,  129  ;  a  vacancy,  155;  its  stations 
and  men,  205. 

Bromley,  Rev.  Daniel,  a  local  elder,  ii.  16. 

Brooking,  Rev.  Robert,  early  history,  v.  10;  H.  B.  T.,  164  ; 
remarks,  215. 

Brouse,  Peter,  an  early  convert,  i.  8  ;  death,  207  ;  his  family, 
209. 


276  CASE,  AND    HIS    C0TEMP0RAR1ES. 

Brouse,  "  Uncle  Joe,"  conv.  of,  i.  7. 

Brown,  Bev.  Nelson,  a  native  Canadian,  iv.  274  ;  Hunger- 
ford,  v.  201. 

Brown,  Bev.  Wm.,  i.  127  ;  early  life,  291 ;  on  trial,  ii.  1 ; 
location,  88  ;  Cornwall,  133  ;  P.  Elder,  iii.  269  ;  super- 
annuated, 340  ;  in  old  age,  v.  236. 

Brownell,  Bev.  John  B.,  a  glimpse  of,  iv.  286  ;  another,  409. 

Brownell,  Bev.  Stephen,  a  supply,  iii.  416  ;  Ottawa,  iv.  42 ; 
made  his  way,  126 ;  Owen  Sound,  339 ;  agent,  455  ; 
Benetanguishene,  v.  198. 

Bruce  Mines,  a  new  church,  v.  162. 

Bryers,  Bev.  Wm.,  his  early  life,  v.  .155. 

Budge,  Henry,  a  supply,  v.  37. 

Bundy,  Bichard,  his  class,  i.  74.  N 

Burch,  Bev.  Thomas,  app't.  to  Quebec,  i.  271  ;  his  birth,  &c7 
281 ;  marriage,  ii.  4;  death,  5. 

Burdick,  Bev.  Caleb,  i.  267,  304 ;  his  ord.,  ii.  295  j  wife's 
death,  iv.  371. 

Burdick,  Bev.  Enoch,  early  life,  i.  254 ;  enters  the  min.,  ii. 
4 ;  located,  267. 

Burge,  Michael,  i.  315. 

Burgess,  John,  a  supply,  iii.  413. 

Burkholder,  Christopher,  ii.  97. 

Burlington  Academy,  v.  40  ;  success,  76. 

Burlington  Bay,  i.  164. 

Burrett,  Mr.  Charles,  his  conv.,  iii.  261. 

Burns,  Bev.  William,  his  early  life,  v.  62  ;  Lochabar,  206. 

Burt,  Bev.  William,  ii.  78  ;  his  zeal,  iii.  90  ;  Odelltown, 
140,  209  ;  return  to  Eng.,  251. 

Burwash,  Nathaniel,  sen.,  his  conv.,  iii.  136. 

Butcher,  Bev.  George  B.,  short  account  of,  iv.  57 ;  ill-health, 
243  ;  again  called,  258  ;  desisted,  v.  14. 

Byam,  John  Wesley,  on  trial,  ii.  100 ;  in  opposition,  iii. 
425,  447. 

Byers,  Bev.  Henry,  a  supply,  iv.  159  ;  withdrew  Brantford, 
405. 


INDEX.  277 

Byrne,  Rev.  Alex.  S.,  early  hist.,  v.  48  ;  obit.,  94. 

Byrne,  Rev.  Claudius,  notice  of,  v.  50. 

Bytown  District,  its  stations  and  men,  iv.  340 ;  vacancies 
and  supplies,  345,  369,  392 ;  two  more,  429  ;  well 
manned,  454,  484  ;  its  Chairman,  v.  15  ;  its  needs,  37  ; 
one  supply,  75;  complete,  106,  129;  two  to  be  sent, 
155  ;  its  stations  and  men,  205. 

Bytown  Mission,  some  account  of,  iii.  247  ;  church  burnt, 
274;  J.  C.  D.,  300;  another  helper,  346  ;  A.  and  W., 
389;  the  work  spreading,  391;  J.  O,  416;  asks  for 
two  men,  iv.  45 ;  changes,  259  ;  secession,  407. 

C. 

Cain,  "  Old  George,"  i.  158. 

Caldwell's  Manor,  a  new  Circuit,  ii.  387 ;  success,  437  ; 
change,  487,  489  ;  Booth,  iii.  48  ;  one  wanted,  98,  140, 
208  ;  Thomas  Turner,  307. 

Cambridge,  N.  Y.,  birthplace  of  Thomas  Madden,  i.  32. 

Cameron,  Hon.  Malcolm,  mention  of,  iii.  300. 

Camp-meetings,  first  in  Canada,  i.  113  ;  Dutchman's  re- 
marks, 147;  near  the  Fifty,  222  ;  near  N.  York,  ii 
57;  Indian,  410,  416;  Ancaster,  454;  Kitley,  481 
Yonge  St.,  iii.  9  ;  Haldimand,  74  ;  Ameliasburgh,  99 
Cummer's  Mills,  109  ;  Waterdown,  149  ;  Church ville, 
266  ;  Presque  I.  and  Hay  Bay,  267  ;  Kingston,  270 
three  good  ones,  298  ;  Portland,  342 ;  King,  385 
Baltimore,  iv.  193,  197  ;  Vaughan,  v.  55;  Union,  76 
Owen  Sound,  78  ;  in  the  year  1851,  107  ;  in  1854,  218. 

Campbell,  Rev.  Alex.,  notice  of,  iv.  483 ;  extra  work,  v.  192. 

Campbell,  Rev.  Alex.  R.,  his  early  life,  v.  191. 

Campbell,  Rev.  Thomas,  short  account  of,  iv.  181. 

Campbell,  William,  a  supply,  iv.  348. 

Canada,  none  but  natives  and  volunteers  sent  there,  i.  18  ; 

Case,  useful  to,  18. 
Canada,  Annual  Conference,  first  meeting  of,  ii.  492  ;  second, 

iii.    52  ;    third,    94 ;    fourth,    142 ;   Earnestown,    210 ; 

Bowman's  church,  253;    Kingston,   276;  York,  309; 


278  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Hallowell,  355  ;  York,  404  ;  Kingston,  439  ;  Hamilton, 
iv.  1;  Belleville,  115;  Toronto,  145;  Kingston,  183; 
Hamilton,  239  ;  Belleville,  287  ;  Toronto,  309,  332  ; 
Picton,  356  ;  Hamilton,  382 ;  Brockville,  417 ;  St. 
Catharines,  443  ;  Kingston,  472  ;  Toronto,  v.  1  ;  Belle- 
ville, 24  ;  Hamilton,  46  ;  Brockville,  61  ;  Toronto,  84; 
Kingston,  115;  Hamilton,  140;  Belleville,  169;  Lon- 
don, 237. 

Canada  Methodism,  doings  of  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.,  ii.  284;  re- 
quests for  separate  Conf,  397  ;  again,  440  ;  Conf.,  492  ; 
request  granted,  iii.  177  ;  effected,  210  ;  a  successful 
year,  347 ;  transition  (see  Meth.  Union),  iv.  332 ;  re- 
port of  delegates,  v.  2  ;  Union  ratified,  2. 

Canada  Western  District,  Rev.  Wm.  Scott's  account  of,  iv. 
325  ;  its  stations  and  men,  374 ;  corrected,  379  ;  mis- 
leading, 435 ;  scattered  hints,  464 ;  work,  how  pro- 
vided for,  485 ;  stations  corrected,  488  ;  union  with 
Can.  Conf.  ratified,  v.  2. 

"  Canadian  Courant,"  pub.  in  Montreal,  i.  152. 

Canadian  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  organized,  iii.  250 ; 
changes,  iv.  294 ;  declension,  294 ;  proposals  for  union 
with  New  Connex.  Meth.,  295  ;  union  made,  435. 

Canboro'  Circuit,  its  extent,  iii.  291 ;  Phelps  and  Griffin, 
330;  supplies,  381  ;  Griffis,  413;  Atwood,  454;  name 
changed,  iv.  122. 

Canniff,  Jonas,  ii.  51. 

Cannon,  Rev.  Ibri,  short  account  of,  ii.  336. 

Canton  Circuit,  Hope  Chapel,  opened,  iii.  387. 

Carey,  John,  short  account  of,  iii.  22  ;  Muncey  School,  54  ; 
prosperity,  63. 

Carlisle,  a  new  church,  v.  132. 

Carlton,  Rev.  Thomas,  D.D.,  incidental  allusions  to,  ii.  189. 

Carman,  Rev.  Albert,  v.  256. 

Carman,  Michael,  his  conv.,  i.  8. 

Carpenter,  Abraham,  brief  notice  of,  iv.  472. 

Carpenter,  Samuel,  death  of,  iv.  457. 


INDEX.  279 

Carr,  Rev.  George,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.  364  ;  his  own  ac- 
count, 386. 

Carroll,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  his  first  open  air  sermon,  iii.  149 ; 
traded  away,  167  ;  return  to  Toronto,  177  ;  first  Camp- 
meeting  exhortation,  179  ;  meets  and  dines  with  Case, 
186;  appointed  leader,  194;  sent  to  Toronto  Circuit, 
199  ;  Belleville,  233  ;  on  trial,  253  ;  Cobourg,  267  ;  his 
first  charge,  300;  Perth,  317;  Ottawa,  389;  a  feast, 
391  ;  Bytown,  416  ;  Brockville,  iv.  2  ;  hard  times,  124  ; 
Cobourg,  157  ;  results  of  excessive  labor,  244  ;  perilous 
journey,  259  ;  Chairman,  340 ;  losing  patience,  345  ; 
Toronto,  484 ;  London  D.,  v.  33  ;  enemies,  78  ;  his  re- 
cord of  Hamilton  revival  in  the  East,  211  ;  friction, 
228-233  ;  preaches  Case's  funeral  sermon,  261. 

Carter,  Robert,  a  supply,  iv.  389. 

Case,  Rev.  George,  his  early  history,  iv.  473  ;  Stratford,  v. 
190. 

Case,  Rev.  William,  his  antecedents,  &c,  i.  2  ;  no  journal,  9  ; 
exhorter,  17  ;  on  trial,  17  ;  volunteers  for  Canada,  18; 
strength  of  Methodism  when  he  entered,  19  ;  Bay 
Quinte  Circuit,  112;  first  Camp-meeting,  114;  Oswe- 
gotchie,  126;  ord.  deacon,  141  ;  returns  to  Canada, 
159  ;  account  of  the  journey,  162  ;  sympathy  for  In- 
dians, 164  ;  ord.  elder,  168;  Detroit,  180  ;  his  letter  to 
B'p.  Asbury,  180;  worthy  of  imitation,  191  ;  promoted, 
202;  Dr.  Peck's  remembrance  of  his  person,  237  ;  three 
years'  labor  in  IT.  S.,  313  :  his  receipts,  ii.  2  ;  delegates 
to  the  Gen'l.  Conf.  of  1816,  2  ;  his  District  in  1815,  7  ; 
at  B'p.  Asbury's  funeral,  29  ;  his  return  to  Lower  Can. 
List,,  42;  the  Scotch  woman,  43;  his  Dist.  in  1817, 
131;  in  1818,  170;  Conf.  work,  216;  his  Dist..  228; 
Aurora  Seagar,  239  ;  Baltimore  Gen'l.  Conf.,  284 ; 
Secretary  of'  Nlag.  Conf,  292  ;  P.  E.  Upper  Can.  Dist., 
304  ;  Dr.  Fitch  Reed's  testimony,  354 ;  sympathy  for 
Indians,  360  ;  his  discernment,  362  ;  See.  of  Conf.,  390  ; 
other  work,  391  ;  glimpses,  398,  39!)  ;  visits  the  In- 
dians, 404  ;  conversion  of  some,  443  ;  more  success, 
461  ;  org.  of  Miss'y.  Society,  495  ;  Canada  for  life,  iii. 
2 ;  passing  glimpses,  25-31  ;  corner-stone,  39 ;  con- 
trasts, 41  ;  missionary  anniv.,  42  ;  visit  to  Red  men, 


2S0  CASE,  AND   HIS   COTEMPORAEIES. 

45  ;  Conf.  of  1825,  53  ;  visit  Grand  River,  61 ;  letter 
to  Paddock,  66  ;  to  Ezra  Healey,  67  ;  to  R.  Jones,  79 ; 
meets  H.  Pope  at  Ottawa,  92 ;  Sec.  of  Conf.,  94 ;  fur- 
ther glimpses,  98  ;  two  letters  to  Healey,  99,  100  ;  again 
Secretary  of  Conf.,  142  ;  abundant  labors,  150  ;  letter 
to  Peter  Jones,  151  ;  to  Z.  Paddock,  154 ;  to  Healey, 
156  ;  to  Peter  Jones,  158  ;  to  E.  Perry,  159  ;  extracts 
from  Healey's  diary,  160;  visit  IT.  S.,  168;  return 
to  Grape  Island,  170;  letter  to  Benham,  178;  journey 
north,  179  ;  132  Indians  baptized,  181  ;  glimpses,  186; 
Pres.  of  Conf.,  217;  his  home  at  Grape  Island,  218; 
Peter  Jones,  219  ;  with  Jones  he  visits  U.  S.,  221-226; 
marriage,  227;  letter  to  Z.  Paddock,  228  ;  more  letters, 
229-233 ;  Pres.  of  Conf.,  253  ;  Indian  Missions,  &c, 
257-263  ;  birth  of  a  daughter,  264  ;  Sup't.  of  M.  E.  C, 
279  ;  journeys  and  labors,  279-289 ;  Del.  to  Gen'l. 
Conf.,  314;  death  of  Mrs.  Case,  315;  letters,  316-326; 
the  last  of  his  General  Superintendency,  365  ;  interest- 
ing letters,  368-373  ;  laborious  voyage,  387  ;  miss'y.  to 
Indian  tribes,  417;  letter  from,  472;  Credit  Mission 
labors,  iv.  66  ;  letter,  68  ;  his  address  before  the  Gene- 
ral Conf.,  69  ;  in  partial  retirement,  208  ;  to  visit  the 
missions,  264;  letters,  266;  President  of  Special  Conf., 
308  ;  his  address,  315  ;  Academy  Board,  351 ;  letter 
from,  377  ;  his  Indian  work,  407  ;  Alderville,  467  ;  an 
incident,  487  ;  gratitude,  v.  3  ;  Industrial  School,  16 ; 
Chairman  CobourgDist.,  36  ;  letter  from,  39  ;  addresses 
the  Conf.,  119;  visiting  the  Thames  country,  156; 
letter  to  Dr.  Bangs',  234  ;  at  the  London  Conf.,  238 ; 
his  jubilee  sermon,  239  ;  letter  to  Dr.  Green,  258  ;  acci- 
dent, 259  ;  death  and  funeral,  260. 

Castle,  Rev.  Joseph,  short  notice  of,  ii.  419 ;  on  trial,  441 ; 
removal,  iii.  2. 

Cataraqui,  first  appointment  to,  i.  12. 

Catterick,  Rev.  Thomas,  ii.  48  :  history  of,  107 ;  Fort  Wel- 
lington, 206 ;  Johnstown,  279  ;  Niagara,  282 ;  more 
testimony,  340  ;  breaking  new  ground,  389 ;  success, 
438 ;  obit.,  491. 


INDEX.  281 

Caughey,  Rev.  James,  first  glimpse  of,  iii.  491  ;  another,  iv. 

.183;  Quebec,   330;   Montreal,   v.    81  ;    Toronto,    109; 

Kingston  and    Hamilton,   134  ;  results,   158  ;  Quebec, 

167. 
Cavan  Circuit,  a  substitute,  iii.  193  ;  sympathy  with  Ryan, 

237;    MeMullen,   268;    hard  labor,  296;  VanD.  and 

Young,  339,  387  ;  Law  and  Harmon,  415. 

Cawthorne,  John  W.,  short  notice  of,  iv.  421  ;  a  supply,  v. 
53. 

Cazenovia  Seminary,  iii.  168,  189;  a  student  from,  238; 
son  of  Reynolds,  260  ;  Alex.  McNabb,  331  ;  another, 
337. 

Centenary  of  Methodism,  iv.  246. 

Chamberlayne,  Rev.  Israel,  short  account  of,  ii.  13;  Lyco- 
ming Circuit,  38;  Bay  Quinte,  139  ;  his  visit  to  Hick- 
cox,  301. 

Chamberlayne,  Rev.  J.  F.,  short  account  of,  i.  273. 

Chamberlayne,  Wyatt,  senr.,  ii.  13  ;  his  baptism,  54  ;  mar- 
riage, 87. 

Chamberlayne,  Rev.  Wyatt,  junr.,  ii.  54  ;  ord.  deacon,  57  ; 
Augusta,  178;  Canada  again,  377;  B.  Quinte,  421; 
difficulties,  468  ;  Augusta,  iii.  34 ;  delegate  to  Gen'l. 
Conf.,  170;  Hallowell,  190  ;  sup'd.  and  subsequent  his- 
tory, 212  ;  a  telling  address,  iv.  357. 

Chambly  Village,  some  account  of,  ii.  22. 

Chapman,  Rev.  Francis,  contrasts,  iv.  450  ;  Port  Stanley,  v. 
187. 

Chase,  Rev.  Abner,  i.  195  ;  Ostego,  ii.  146  ;  brief  notice  of, 
291  ;  another  glimpse,  iii.  131. 

Chase,  Henry  P.,  a  native  helper,  v.  33.  */ 

Chatham  District,  its  stations  and  men,  v.  189. 

Child,  the  crying,  i.  39. 

Chippewa,  a  new  chapel,  v.  79. 

Chisholm,  Wm.,  Esq.,  iv.  26. 

"  Christian  Advocate,"  N.  Y.,  begun,  iii.  97. 

"  Christian  Guardian,"  Toronto,  pub.  of,  began,  iii.  256  ;  E. 
Ryerson,    Editor,    412;    a    significant    election,    444; 


282  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES.  ' 

• 

anxious  discussion  on,  iv.  2  ;  editorship  made  imper- 
sonal, 152 ;  change  of  Editor,  185  ;  files  of,  inaccessible, 
282 ;  rivalry,  342 ;  editorial  on  consecration,  370 ; 
Editor's  reports,  382  ;  Editor's  course,  396  ;  Playter, 
424  ;  portraiture  of  Maffitt,  457  ;  Sanderson,  475  ;  re- 
elected, v.  15  ;  gleanings,  17. 

Church,  Rev.  Levins  S.,  introduced,  iii.   247  ;  Ottawa,  272  ; 
on  trial,   277  ;  desisted,  299. 

Churches,   number   of,  in   1806,  i.   140 ;  in   1815,  ii.  35. 

Church  Relief  Fund  approved,  iv.  459. 

Churchhill,  Rev.  Charles,  account  of,  iv.  441  ;  visit  to  Brock- 

ville  Conference,  v.  67. 
Circuits,  division  of,  resolutions  on,  v.  226. 
Civil  and  religious  privileges,  committee  on,  iv.  247. 
Clappison,  Rev.  D.  C,  introduced,  iv.   464 ;  Farmersville, 

202. 
Clarendon  first  named  in  stations,  iv.  42  ;  report  from, "  45  ; 

parsonage  built,  56. 
,  Clarke,  Capt.  Matthew,  i.  305. 
Clarke,  Rev.  James  M.,  a  supply,  v.    70 ;  his  antecedents. 

98  ;  on  trial,  117  ;  Glanford  and  Seneca,  182. 
Clarke,  Rev.  John  S.,  on  trial,  174;  portraiture  of,  176  ;  his 

first  Circuit,  197. 
Clarke,  Rev.  Richard,  his  early  life,  v.  80  ;  G-uelph,  190. 
Class-meetings   as  a  test  of  membership,  debate  on,  v.  170- 
Cleghorn,  Rev.  Thomas,  contrasts,  iv.  449  ;  his  portraiture, 

v.  53  ;  London,  186. 
Clement,  Rev.  Edwin,  his  portraiture,  v.  34  ;  Simcoe,  184. 
Clergy  Reserve  controversy,  iii.  192  ;  disposal  of,  337  ;  reso" 

lutions  on,  iv.  147  ;  rescinded,  245  ;  attempt  to   settle> 

v.  18  ;  Bill  to  secularize,  133. 
Cline,  Henry,  i.  103. 
Cline,  S.,  i.  161. 

Clouse,  Peter,  his  miss'y.  speech,  iv.  15. 
Coate,  Rev.  Michael,  i.  15  ;  biography  of,  51  ;  death,  53. 
Coate,  Rev.  S.,  i.  14 ;  goes  out  of  the  country,  15  ;  P.  Elder, 


INDEX.  283 

16  ;  early  history,  19  ;  controversy  with  McD.,  21  ;  visit 
to  England,  145;  P.  Elder,  174;  letter  to  Rev.  J. 
Benson,  175  ;  abundant  labors,  176;  locates,  196  ;  fur- 
ther account  of,  203  ;  Playter's  account,  210 ;  correction, 
327. 

Cobb,  Rev.  Thomas,  portraiture  of,  v.  245 

Cobourg,  first  named  as  a  Circuit,  iii.  72  ;  Slater  and  E.  R., 
191  ;  societies  decimated,  235  ;  Wright  and  Carroll, 
267  ;  fair  success,  339  ;  Camp-meeting,  387  ;  Bevitt  and 
Jones,  415  ;  good  prospects,  464  ;  letter,  469  ;  four  days' 
meeting,  iv.  38 ;  its  extent  in  1837,  157;  a  new  church, 
v.  131  ;  its  dedication,  161. 

Cobourg  District,  first  named,  iv.  363  ;  vacancy,  452  ;  two 
more,  483 ;  its  manual  labor  school,  v.  37  ;  Scugog 
Mission,  53  ;  its  needs,  104;  Indian  Missions,  126;  its 
supplies,  153  ;  its  stations  and  men,  199. 

Cochran,  Rev.  Geo.,  his  early  life,  v.  149. 

Cochrane,  Rev.  Samuel,  short  account  of,  i.  149  ;  appointed 
to  Quebec,  155  ;  obit.,  170. 

Coke,  Rev.  Dr.,  sent  to  org.  Am.  Meth.  Church,  i.  5  ;  his 
death,  ii.  3. 

Colborne,  first  society  formed,  ii.  418  ;  first  named  as  a  Cir- 
cuit, iv.  322  ;  70  added,  v.  17. 

Coldwater,  Baxter  sent,  iii.  386  ;  the  settlement  breaking  up, 

iv.  162. 
Cole,  Rev.  Benj.,  his  obituary,  v.  250. 
Coleman,  Rev.  Francis,asome  account  of,  iv.  29 1 ;  Albion,  338 ; 

exchanging,  451;  Matilda,  v.  205. 
Coleman,  Rev.  James,  i.    14  ;  account  of,  40  ;  his  piety,  43  ; 

his  death,  44  ;  reference  to,  160  ;  correction,  328. 
Coleman,  Rev.    Seymour,  funeral  sermon  for  Samuel  Howe, 

i.  71. 
Coleman,  Rev.    William,   brief  notice  of,  iv.  151  ;  Oxford, 

337  ;  Richmond,  v.  205. 
Collier,  James,  his  conversion,  iii.  383. 
Committee  on  Union,  iii.  356. 


284  CASE,  AND   HIS   COTEMPORAEIES. 

Conference  of  1$06,  i.  118  ;  of  1807,  141 ;  of  1812-14,  where 
held,  288  ;  of  1815,  ii.  1 ;  of  1816,  ii.  35  ;  of  1817,  83. 

Conference,  General,  first,  in  N.  York,  i.  282 ;  second,  in 
Baltimore,  ii.  28. 

Connexional  troubles,  iii.  428. 

Connor,  Matthew,  some  account  of,  iv.  292  ;  "Vic.  Coll.,  394; 
located,  v.  32. 

Consecon,  revival  in,  iv.  41. 

Constable,  Rev.  Thomas,  first  glimpse  of,  v.  14.  - 

Constitutional  Act  promulgated,  i.  9. 

Contingent  Fund,  creation  of,  iv.  1 20 ;  Committee,  how  consti- 
tuted, v.  225  ;  applic.  for  grants,  &c,  226. 

Cooke,  Edward,  a  supply,  v.  104  ;  EJora,  126  ;  Mono,  152  ; 
his  portraiture,  194 ;  Durham,  197. 

Cooksville  first  named  on  Circuit  plan,  iii.  244. 

Cooney,  Rev.  Dr.,  introduced,  iv.  235  ;  his  autobiography, 
380,  412  ;  pleading  for  the  truth,  415 ;  in  Toronto, 
465. 

Cooper,  Rev.  Edward,  i.  198;  somejjaccount  of,  219;  Bay 
Quinte,  256,  261,  305.  , 

Cop  way,  George,  some  account  of,  iv.  372. 

Cornish,  Rev.  Geo.  H.,  "  Hand  Book  of  Meth."  refer'd.  to, 
iii.  79 ;  iv.  180,  182,  233,  234,  236,  248,  269,  285,  286, 
287,  375,  388,  404,  405,  406,  410,  424,  436,-441,  465, 
466,  467,  482;  v.  47,  70,  97,  105,  125,  152,  177,  184, 
188,  192,  197,  199. 

Cornwall  Circuit  organized,  i.  158  ;  increase  on,  178  ;  pros- 
pects of,  ii.  110  ;  further  notice,  114  ;  Mr.  Pope's. labors, 
121  ;  extent  of,  122  ;  increase,  243 ;  E.  Boardman  and 
D.  W.,  329;  great  revival,  474;  Ezra  Healey,  iii.  38; 
Chamberlayne,  135;  decrease,  247,  Black,  299;  Wal- 
dron,  389. 

Corson,  Rev.  Robert,  his  estimate  of  Geo.  Neal,  i.  90 ; 
moves  into  Oxford  Township,  ii.  38  ;  his  opinion  of 
Elijah  "Warren,  40  ;  his.good  home,  399  ;  on  trial,  441  ; 
Dumfries,  iii.  13  ;  letter  from,  14  ;  ord.,  53  ;  Dumfries, 
59 ;  Westminster,   128 ;  a    good  year,  149 ;  Whitby, 


INDEX.  285 

236,  268  ;  Toronto  Circuit,  297,  331  ;  Yonge  St.,  381, 
414;  Newmarket,  455;  letter  from,  iv.  27  :  his  85th 
year,  v.  18. 

Cosford,  Rev.  Thomas,  some  account  of,  iv.  241  ;  St.  Catha- 
rines, 338  ;  Bowmanville,  v.  199. 

Costello,  David,  a  supply,  v.  207. 

Cotton,  Win.,  portraiture  of,  iv.  453. 

Covell,  Mrs.,  i.  142;  ii.  194. 

Covell,  Rev.  James,  ii.  194;  his  obit.,  195. 

Covenhoven,  Rev.  Peter,  i.  198;  some  account  of,  218;  lo- 
cated, 268 ;  correction,  334. 

Cow,  Robert,  a  native  helper,  death  of,  iv.  62. 

Cox,  Henry,  a  glimpse  of,  v.  20  ;  Sherbrooke,  44  ;  his  visit  to 
La  Chute,  161. 

Cragg,  Rev.  Edward,  his  early  life,  213. 

Crandall,  Rev.  Phineas,  brief  notice  of,  ii.  336. 

Crane,  Rev.  Isaac,  introduced,  v.  244. 

Crane,  John,  incidents  of  travel,  iii.  71  ;  exhorting,  120. 

Crane,  Samuel,  i.  24. 

Crawford,  Seth,  short  account  of,  ii.  409  ;  Grand  River  In- 
dians, 447-450  ;  success,  462  ;  a  glimpse,  iii.  21 ;  good 
training,  66. 

Credit  Mission,  Indians  apply  to  locate,  iii.  22  ;  a  kind  offer, 
63 ;  settlement  commenced,  68  ;  James  Richardson, 
201;  curious  census,  240;  Geo.  Ryerson,  269;  You- 
mans,  297  ;  James  Evans,  333  ;  report,  451  ;  Quarterly 
Meeting,  iv.  63. 

Creighton,  Rev.  Kennedy,  some  account  of,  iv.  297  ;  Grand 
River,  338  ;  Bytown,  205. 

Creighton,  Rev.  "William,  his  early  life,  v.  73 ;  Kincardine, 
190. 

Crews,  Rev.  Thomas,  a  supply,  v.  87 ;  London  Circuit, 
186. 

Crosby  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  204  ;  included  in  Brockville. 
246 ;  secession,  iv.  42. 

Crosscomb,  Rev.    William,  some  account  of,  ii.  107  ;  brief 


286  CASE,    AND   HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES. 

notice  of,  ^200 ;    Montreal,  iii.  437,    487 ;    interesting 

letter,  488-493;  Quebec,  iv.  107  ;  visit  Belleville  Con., 

119;  Dist.  Meeting,  141. 
Crowell,  Rev.  Seth,  i.  15,  22 ;  further   account  of,  60 ;  his 

death,  62. 
Culbert,  Rev.  Thomas,  his  ord.,  v.  174;  Proton,  193. 
Culham,  Rev.  John,  account  of,  iv.  297. 
Culp,  Rev.  David,  his  early  life,  i.  289  ;  his  ord.,  ii.  1 ;  Bay 

Quinte,  11  ;  Yonge  St.,   130;  York,  165  ;  sup'd.,  228; 

Long  Point,   400 ;  located,    iii.  52 ;  opposed  to  union, 

420,  427. 

Cumberland  Mission,  its  extent,  iv.  263. 

Cummings,  Rev.  Anson,  his  visit  to  Conf.  iv.  420. 

Cunningham,  James,  a  supply,  iii.  265. 

Currie,  Rev.  James,  appointed  leader,  iii.  194  ;  short  account 

of,  277;  among  the  Indians,  296;  Lake  Simcoe,  334; 

Waterloo,  415  ;  Richmond,   iv.    50  ;  Perth,    340 ;   R. 

Lochead's  conversion,   368  ;  Andrew  A.  Smith's  conv., 

v.  64. 
Curry,  Michael,  a  supply,  iii.    351 ;  Wesleyville,  399  ;  still 

helping,  iv.  125. 

D. 

Daily,  Joseph,  a  Quaker  convert,  ii.  325. 
Darlington,    Rev.  Robt.,  on  trial,    iv.  34 ;  supernumerary, 
v.  32. 

Davidson,  Rev.  John  C,  a  supply,  iii.  75  ;  Cobourg,  107 ;  on 

trial,  143,  Hallowell,  190;  success,  245  ;  Bytown,  300; 

Belleville,  515;  Kingston,  456  ;  a  thorough  pastor,  iv. 

190  ;  withdrawal,  356  ;  Bytown,  467  ;  again  withdrew, 

v.  179. 
Davies,  Rev.  John,  a  supply,  v.  249. 
Davis,  Alpheus,  ii.  143  ;  his  early  life,  162 ;  his  first  circuit, 

163  ;  his  obituary,  164. 
Davis,  Chief,  some  account  of,  ii.  415. 
Davis,   Rev.  Geo.,  H.,  portraiture  of,  iv.  469  ;  Toronto,  v 

33  ;  letter  from,  138  ;  Cobourg,  199. 


index.  287 

Davis,  Rev.  Heman,  a  supply,  iii.  384  ;  Sidney,  415  ;  mar- 
riage and  its  consequences,  iv.  117;  Cobourg,  124;  a 
supply  again,  350 ;  Balsam  Lake,  363 ;  Brock,  389. 

Davis,  a  Mohawk  Chief,  iii.  53. 

Day,  William,  brief  notice  of,  iv.  160. 

Dayman,  Rev.  Abraham,  short  notice  of,  iv.  421  ;  ord.  v. 
29 ;  Wilton,  202. 

Dean,  Rev.  Horace,  first  glimpse  of,  iii.  293  ;  some  account  of, 
311;  Westminster,  336;  Thames,  385;  Gosfiekl,  413; 
letter  from,  430  ;  Gosfield,  454 ;  in  full  connection,  iv. 
1;  Newmarket,  21;  report  from,  24;  his  colleague, 
252  ;  Toronto  Circuit,  338  ;  a  mistake,  v.  70  ;  Rama, 
198. 

Decrease,  first  reported,  i.  15  ;  after  the  war,  ii.  8  ;  after  the 
missionary  war,  337  ;  after  the  disruptionion,  iv.  133  ; 
second  consecutive,  233  ;  in  Can.  East,  469. 

Delegates  to  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.  at  Pittsburg,  iii.  169;  New 
York,  314;  in  1836,  iv.  5  ;  Baltimore,  247;  New 
York,  383,  399. 

Demorest,  Rev.  Thomas,  on  trial,  ii.  218  ;  his  earl)7  life,  245  ; 
Yonge  St.,  311  ;  Thames,  355  ;  marriage,  455  ;  letter  of 
456;  ord.  Eld.  iii.  3;  Niagara,  7;  Dumfries,  126; 
located,  145  ;  re-admitted,  iv.  357  ;  trav.  agent,  v.  54, 
181. 

Demorestville,  noted,  iv.  56. 

Dempster,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  history  of,  ii.  56-63  ;  in  good 
company,  83;  his  perseverance,  91. 

Dennett,  Rev.  Joseph,  brief  notice  of,  i.  251  ;  his  return, 
261. 

Densmore,  Rev.  Geo.  W.  short  account  of,  i.  253  ;  further 
account  of,  268  ;  his  return,  270;  Dr.  Deck's  opinion  of 
him.  ii.  53. 

DePutron,  Rev.  John,  notice  of,  ii.  26  ;  his  letter  to  the 
Miss'y  Coin.,  71  ;  his  early  history,  77;  illness,  119; 
Fort  Wellington,  206  ;  Melbourne,  338  ;  death,  iii.  47. 

Detlor,  Mr.  Samuel,  death  of,  iv.  456. 

Detroit  Circuit,  first  named,  i.  170;  further  notice  of,  ii.  8; 


288  CASE,    AND  HIS    COTEMPORAiUES. 

the  society  in  1818,  128  ;  great  changes,    129  ;  increase 
and  church  built,  219. 

Deverill,  William,    a  supply,  iii.  455  ;  letter  from.    iv.  38  ; 
Brock,  344. 

Devonshire,  a  parsonage  built,  v.  133. 

Dewart,   Rev.  E.  H.,  his  portraiture,  v.    102  ;  his  maiden 
communication,  108  ;  on  trial,  117;  Thorold,  183. 

De  Wolfe,  Eev.  Charles,  v.  43. 

Dickson,  Rev.  G.  N.  A.  F.  T.,  from  N.  B.  V.,  113 ;  changes, 
166;  Hamilton,  182. 

Dignam,  Rev.  William,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.   257  ;  his  por- 
traiture, 289;  St.  Andrews,  340;  Gosfield,  v.  189. 

Dingman,  Rev.  Garrett  J.,  a  supply,  v.   153  ;  Lindsay,  200. 

Discipline,  changes  in,  iv.  358. 

District  Meeting  of  Eng.  Missionaries  in  Kingston,  ii.  215; 

further  account  of,  270 ;  Dr.  Alder's  visit,  iii.  351. 
Division  of  Circuits,  resolution  on,  v.  226. 
Dixon,  Rev.  James,  D.D.,  President  of  Conf.  v.  24  ;  his  early 

history,  25-28. 
Dixon,  Rev.  Trueman,  short  notice  of,    ii.  218  ;  Montreal, 

334;  Ottawa,  335. 
Dixon,    William,    on  trial,   iv.   384 :    his    parentage,    &c, 

385. 
Doel,  Mr.  John,  his  account  of  the  York  class,  ii,   166  ;  Dr. 

Fitch  Reed's  testimony,  367. 
Dodson,  Rev.  Nathan  B.,  i.  195. 
Dorey,  Rev.  Gifford,  his  portraiture,  v.  20. 
Douglas,  Rev.  Geo.,  on  trial,  v.  42  ;  Bermudas,  80. 
Douglass,    Rev.    John,  recommendation  of,  iv.  488 ;  Sher- 

brooke,  v.  21;  supernumerary,  165. 
Douse,  Rev.  John,  on  Grand  River,  iii.  458  ;  labors,  iv.  14 ; 

letter  to  Mr.  Evans,  209  ;  his  address,  314  ;  in  Hamilton, 

465  ;  back  again,  v.  7  ;  Barrie,  197. 
Dow,   Rev.  Lorenzo,  quotation  from  his  journal,  i.   49  ;  re- 
turn to  Ireland  119 ;  preaches  at  Camp-m.,  235. 


INDEX.  289 

Dowler,  Rev.  John  A.,  a  supply,  v.  206. 

Down,  Rev.  Samuel,  a  supply,  v.  200. 

Doxtater,  William,  his  conv.,  iii.  31  ;  successful  labors,  187  ; 
Genesee  Conf.,  229. 

Draper,  -Rev.  Samuel,  i.  15  ;  further  account  of,  59  ;  his 
death,  60  ;  account  of  a  Quarterly  Meeting  held  by  him, 
279. 

Duchess  County,  the  home  of  H.  Ryan,  i.  24. 

Duffin's  Creek,  Circuit  formed,  ii.  130. 

Duke  of  Richmond,  death  of,  ii.  274. 

Dulmage,  Elias,  i.  233. 

Dulmage,  Miss,  the  wife  of  S.  Coate,  i.  20;  death  of  Mrs.  D., 
206. 

Dumfries,  pioneering,  ii.  459;  extent  of  Circuit,  460;  R. 
Corson,  iii.  13,  59;  Demorest,  126;  Geo.  S.,  149; 
Griffis,  265;  P.  and  A.,  292;  Atwood,  337;  a  soul- 
saving  time,  384;  Van,  414,  455;  letter,  461;  Belton 
and  N.,  iv.  26  ;  Ferguson  and  Madden,  337  ;  revival, 
343. 

Dunham,  i.  139;  how  connected,  144;  increase,  150,  191; 
further  record,  276;  Dr.  F.  Reed's  statement,  277  ;  his- 
tory, 279  ;  resumed,  ii.  256-268  ;  Ibri.  Cannon,  an  inci- 
dent, 336. 

Dunham, Rev.  Darius,  one  of  Garretson's  band,  i.  6  ;  Canada, 
12  ;  Lower  Can.  Circuit,  14  ;  locates,  15  ;  history  of,  36; 
some  characteristics,  37  ;  Dunham  and  the  Squire,  38  ; 
power  in  prayer,  39  ;  another  glimpse,  ii.  423. 

Dunning,  Rev.  Charles,  his  conversion,  iii.  81. 

Dutch  Methodists  of  Matilda,  iv.  47. 

Dyer,  Rev.  James  E.,  his  portraiture,  v.  190. 

Dyre,  Rev.  William  R.,  a  supply,  v.  197. 

E. 

"  Early  Methodism,"  Dr.  Geo.  Peck's,   quoted  from,  i.    242, 
314;  ii.  13,  15,   41  ;  on   Hop  Bottom  Circuit,   55;  on 
Dr.  Dempster,  57 ;  Gid.   Lanniug,   99 ;  Dr.   Paddock's 
letter,  143. 
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290  CASE,    AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Earnestown  Conf.  of  1828,  account  of,  iii.  210. 

Easton,  Joseph,  a  local  helper,  ii.  379. 

Education,  early  movement  for,  ii.  217. 

Educational   collection,  v.   162;  Committee,  hew  appointed, 

227. 

Edwards,   Rev.    Andrew,   sketch    of,  v.   123 ;  Holland,  L., 

198. 

Elizabethtown  Circuit,  formation  of,  iii.  345  ;  Madden  and 
Wood,  388  ;  good -tidings,  390;  C.  Wood,  416;  "a  feast 
of  fat  things,"  iv.  43;  "no  bed  of  roses,"  126;  true 
state  of  the  case,  348. 

Elizabethtown  Conference,  account  of,  ii.  83,  86 ;  local 
preachers,  471. 

Elliott,  Rev.  John,  short  notice  of,  ii.  309. 

Elliott,  Rev.  John  Ferguson,  a  candidate,  iv.  328  ;  his  death, 
353. 

Elliott,  Rev.  James,  a  supply,  iv.  344 ;  his  diffidence,  345 ; 
Hamilton,  v.  182. 

Ellis,  David  and  William,  iii.  15. 

Ellsworth,   Rev.  Orrin  H.,  a  supply  for  Mud  Lake,  v.  126; 

on  trial,  141  ;  Vienna,  184. 
Embury,  John,  in  old  age,  v.  235. 
Embury,  Philip,  and  his  company,  i.  5  ;  reference  to,  ii.  74 ; 

his  Bible,  262  ;  his  grandson's  death,iii.  140  ;  a  powerful 

preacher,  v.  235  ;  death,  236. 
Embury,  Samuel,  i.  8. 

Emms,  Joel,  Cornwall  Circuit,  iii.  81 ;  fruits,  247. 
Emory,  Rev.  John,  ii.  30  ;  Del.  to  Brit.  Conf.,  288. 
Empey,  Peter,  criticisms  on,  v.  196  ;  St.  Vincent,  197. 
English,    Rev.  John,  his  parentage,  v.    30 ;  Stoney  Creek, 

182. 
English,  Rev.  Nohle  F.,  contrasts,  iv.  449  ;  a  glimpse  of,  484; 

Brantford,  v.  184. 
Enthusiasm  of  early  Methodists,  i.  10. 
Episcopacy,  resolutions  to  relinquish  the,  iii.  357. 


INDEX.  291 

Episcopal  disruption  of  1833,  and  Culp's  sympathy  with, 
iii.  53  ;  a  vortex,  338. 

Escape,  providential,  i.  96. 

Esquob,  James,  a  native  helper,  v.  152. 

European  itinerants,  dates  of  arrival,  i.  5. 

Evans,  Rev.  Ephraim,  D.D.,  short  account  of,  iii.  203  ;  on 
trial,  210 ;  Cobourg,  235 ;  Kingston,  270 ;  Niagara, 
290;  a  good  year,  329  ;  Stamford,  380  ;  agent  for  college, 
418;  editor,  iv.  3  ;  re-elected,  120,  152  ;  London  Dist., 
190  ;  author's  comments,  217  ;  his  address  on  taking 
leave,  314  ;  in  other  company,  341  ;  John  B.  Selley's  let- 
ter, 342  ;  London,  375  ;  a  laborious  colleague,  405  ;  his 
whereabouts  in  1844,  435  ;  London  fortunate,  465,  486; 
back  again,  v.  7  ;  sent  to  Halifax,  33. 

Evans,  Rev.  Henry,  i.  139. 

Evans,  Rev.  James,  short  account  of,  iii.  220 ;  visit  to  Grape 
Island,  233  :  Indian  School,  268  ;  on  trial,  277 ;  Rice 
Lake,  296,  301 ;  Credit,  333  ;  Ancaster,  381  ;  St.  Catha- 
rines, 413;  St.  Clair,  438  ;  Ancaster,  454  ;  letter  from, 
471;  selections,  iv.  75-85;  always  busy,  127;  in  Eng- 
land, 168  ;  letter  from,  169-175  ;  letter  to,  209  ;  L.  Supe- 
rior, 214-233  ;  Guelph,  250 ;  private  letters,  272  ;  H.  B. 
T.,  277;  death,  278  ;  testimonials  of  character,  v.  31. 

Everts,  Rev.  Renaldo  M.,  his  birth  and  conv.,  ii.  183;  Au- 
gusta, 244  ;  his  death,  302  ;  his  letter  to  Healey,  427  ; 
another  glimpse,  iii.  131. 

F. 

Facts  passed  over,  iii.  348. 

Fairbanks,  Ira,  i.  195  ;  Dr.  Peck's  reminiscences  of,  240. 

Farr,  Rev.  Geo.,  his  conversion,  ii.  12  ;  his  first  Circuit,  321, 
329  ;  vindication  of  character,  351  ;  Augusta  Circuit, 
377  ;  discontinued,  390  ;  Rideau,  iii.  84  ;  again  on  trial, 
96 ;  great  triumphs,  136;  his  .marriage,  &c,  206;  De- 
mas,  249  ;  located,  254. 

Father  of  fudian  Missions,  i.  1 ;  his  family  scattered,  2. 
"  See  Case,  Rev.  William." 

Faulkner,  Rev.  William,  iii.  209. 


292  CASE,    AND    HIS   COTEMPORARIES. 

Fawcett,  John,  a  supply,  v.  153. 

Fawcett,  Rev.  Michael,  some  account  of,  iv.  359 ;  he  begins 

seven  successful  years  in  Bay  Quinte,  v.  74  ;   Consecon, 

220. 
Fawcett,  Rev. Thomas, a  supply,  iii.  384;  Toronto  Circuit,4l4; 

Newmarket,  455  ;  letters  from,  iv.   27  ;  his  address  on 

separating,  314  ;  Guelph,  375,  436;  back   again,   v.  7; 

Sarnia,  33  ;  St.  George,  184. 

Fear,  Rev.  Samuel,  iii.  458 ;  a  supply,  iv.  159  ;  letter  from, 
213;  Chinguacousy,  406,  indefatigable,  467;  ord.,  v. 
29  ;  Owen  Sound,  193. 

Fenton,  Mr.  John,  short  account  of,  ii.   339. 

Ferguson,  Rev.  Geo.,  on  Christian  Warner's  conversion,  i. 
89;  his  early  life,  304;  opinion  of  Montreal,  312;  ex- 
tract from  his  journal,  ii.  18  ;  on  trial,  64 ;  further  his- 
tory, 65-70;  Niagara  Circuit,  161;  Ancaster,  225,307; 
success,  355;  Long  Point,  400;  Westminster,  iii.  12; 
increase,  58  ;  Amherstburgh,  129  ;  Thames,  150  ;  Hallo- 
well,  234,  267  ;  Bay  Quinte,  295,  342  ;  Waterloo,  386, 
415  ;  discouragement,  iv.  125  ;  sup'd.,294  ;  again  in  the 
field,  321  ;  travels  and  work  done,  383  ;  Credit,  394  ; 
his  obituary,  v.   93. 

Fiddler,  anecdote  of  a,  i.  95. 

Financial  District  Meeting  created,  v.  56  ;  first  held,  109. 

Fingland,  Thomas,  his  death,  iv.  457. 

Finley,  Rev.  John  B.,  his  first  appt.  as  P.  Elder,  ii.  292. 

Fish,  Rev.  Charles,  early  history  of,  v.  35. 

Fisher,  Daniel,  Esq.,  ii.  74  ;  obit.,  iii.  140. 

Fisher,  John,  Esq.,  iii.  51. 

Fisk,  Rev.  Wilbur,  D.D.,  elected  Bishop  of  Canada  Meth. 
Church,  iii.  215  ;  in  favor  of  union,  393. 

Flanagan,  John,  iv.  1 ;  four  days'  meeting,  38 ;  located, 
243. 

Flanders,  Rev.  Rufus  A.,  some  notice  of,  iv.  353  ;  Russel- 
town,  379;  Rawdon,  410;  Wesley ville, '458 ;  v.  21  ; 
New  Ireland,  44  ;  Shefford,  57,  80,  113, 137  ;  Dunham, 
212. 


IKDEX.  293 

Fletcher,  Eev.  Ashton,  portraiture  of,  v.  175. 

Fletcher,  Eev.  Ashton,  Sen.,  brief  notice  of,  v.  175  ;  intro- 
duced, 244. 

Fletcher,  Drummond  J.,  portraiture  of,  v.  90. 

Flint,  Billa,  gives  house  rent  free,  iv.  46. 

Flint,  Calvin  N.,  short  account  of,  ii.  187;  Augusta,  244; 
Eideau,  333;  Bay,  337;  revival,  419. 

Flummerfelt,  Cornelius,  iii.  196-198  ;  again  in  the  field,  iv. 
345. 

Forman,  Eev.  E.  J.,  on  trial,  v.  141;  portraiture,  144;  Brad- 
ford, 197. 

Fort/Jeorge  Circuit,  its  extent,  iii.,  241;  revival,  264; 
name  changed,  290. 

Foster,  William,  a  good  supply,  iv.  438  ;  subsequent  career, 
439  ;  examination  satisfactory,  469  ;  Eawdon,  470. 

Four  days' meetings  introduced,  iii.  290. 

Four  noted  names,  iii.  447. 

Fowler,  Eev.  Hiram,  his  antecedents,  v.  247. 

Fowler,  Eev.  Eobert,  M.D.,  a  supply,  v.  146. 

Frazer,  Father,  and  his  class,  iv.  124. 

Freeman,  D.  M.,  Esq.,  i.  248. 

Freeman,  Eev.  Daniel,  i.  198  ;  history  of,  220  ;  Dr.  Ryerson's 
testimony,  221  ;  located,  247;  death,  248  ;  hospitality,  ii. 
158  ;  a  glimpse,  iii.   22. 

Frontier  life,  anecdote  of,  i.  93. 

Froom,  Mr.  James,  i.  157. 

G. 
Gabie,  Eobt.  L.,  a  glimpse  of,  iv.  475. 
•  lage,  James,  i.  42  ;  Case's  home,  ii.  304. 
Uananoque,  first  found  in  the  list  of  stations,  iv.  30 ;  Steer 

there,  32  ;  S.  Miles,  330  ;  C.  Turver,  202. 
Gardiner,  C'apt.,  introduced,  iii.  330. 
Gardiner,  Mr.  David,  ii.  46. 
Garlick,  Eev.  Heman,  i.  215  ;  further  account  of,  243  ;  death, 

244. 


294  -  CASE,   AND   HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES. 

Garrett,  Richard,  a  supply,  iv.  181  ;  on  trial,  334  ;  withdrew, 

335. 
Garretson  and  his  band,_i.  6  ;  gives  permission  to  visit  Can., 

7  ;  Wm.  Losee  one  of  the  number,  11. 
Garry,  Rev.  Geo.,  i.  195. 
Gatchell,  Rev.  Joseph,  i.  223  ;  marriage,  224  ;  Smith's  Creek, 

256 ;  located,  263 ;  again  in  the  field,  iii.  56 ;  Lyon's 

Creek,    149  ;  Niagara,    243 ;   Long   Point,    265,  292 ; 

sup'd.,  313;  his  subsequent  career,  313;  useful,  330; 

opposed  to  union,  404,  445  ;  finale,  iv.  4. 

George,  Rev.  Enoch,  elected  Bishop,  ii.  31  ;  a  reference  to, 
83  ;  his  portraiture,  84  ;  visit  to  Canada,  196  ;  Lundy's 
Lane  Conference,  291 ;  his  piety,  318  ;  visits  Canada, 
.  493  ;  Hamilton  Conf.,  iii.  94. 

Gemley,  Rev.  John,  some  account  of,  iv.  348  ;  Toronto  East, 
v.  181. 

Genesee  Conference,  formed,  i.  193;  first  meeting  of,  ,194 ; 
extracts  from  journal  of,  196  ;  of  1812  meets  at  Lyons 
instead  of  Niagara,  258  ;  in  1817,  at  Elizabethtown,  ii. 
83;  in  1818,  at  Lansing,  N.  Y.,  140;  in  1819,  at 
Vienna,  216  ;  in  1820,  at  Niagara,  288;  in  1821,  at 
Paris,  339  ;  again,  in  1822,  390  ;  Canada  affairs,  397 ; 
in  1823,  at  Westmoreland,  439 ;  visitors  from,  v.  238. 

German,  Rev.  John  W.,  his  antecedents,  v.  75  ;  Farmers- 
ville,  202. 

German,  Peter,  a  helper,  iv.  371. 

German,  Rev.  Peter,  a  supply,  iv.  427 ;  portraiture*  of,  v. 
177  ;  a  note  from  Norwich,  185. 

Gilbert,  Rev.  C.  W.  M.,  introduced,  iv.  420 ;  his  first  Cir- 
cuit, v.  15  ;  St.  Mary's,  190. 

Giles,  Rev.  Charles,  quotations  from,  i.  195  ;  ord.  Elder, 
238  ;  instrument  of  Dempster's  conversion,  ii.  57 ;  his 
account  of  Bishop  George's  sermon,  85. 

Gill,  "William,  noticed,  iii.  135.    ' 

Gillespie,  George,  a  sup'ply,  v.  15. 

Gladwin,  Rev.  Jonathan,  Isle  of  Tanti,  iii.  458  ;  useful,  i¥.  < 
86  ;  death,  190.  4 


INDEX.  295 

Glass,  William,  a  probationer,  iv.  445  ;  Mono,  451. 

Glassford,  Paul,  Esq.,  i.  129,  232;  headquarters,  ii.  133; 
his  generosity,  176. 

Goderich,  first  named  as  a  separate  Circuit,  iii.  413  ;  Thos. 
Hurlburt,  iv.  74  ;  out  of  the  Can.  Conf.,  321  ;  J.  Norris, 
375  ;  another  name,  481. 

Gooderham,  James,  his  early  history,  v.  30. 

Goodfellow,  John,  brief  account  of,  iv.  385  ;  ill-health,  v  14. 

Goodrich,  Rev.  Charles  B.,  some  account  of,  iv.  288  ;  his  ad- 
dress on  leaving,  315. 

Goodson,  Rev.  George,  portraiture  of,  iv.  118  ;  Matilda,  125; 
Crosby,  340  ;  St.  Catharines,  v.  183. 

Goodwin,  Rev.  Timothv,  his  early  life,  ii.  186  ;  testimony, 
244  ;  Augusta,  329  ;  death,  378. 

Gosfield,  Horace  Dean  there,  iii.  413  ;  Dean  and  Kerr  454  ; 
letter  from  P.  Ker,  560  ;  help  needed,  iv.  426  ;  union 
working  well,  v.  17  ;  W.  M.  Dignam  there,  189. 

Government  House,  visit  of  Dr.  Alder  to,  iv.  248. 

Government  Money  Grant,  iii.  394 ;  remarks  on,  426  ; 
political  aspect,  427  ;  memorials  on,  and  report,  iv.  3  ; 
resolutions  on,  47  ;  rescinded,  245. 

Grafton,  new  church  opened,  v.  131. 

Graham,  Rev.  Robert,  his  introduction,  iv.  410  ;  his  portrai- 
ture, 437  ;  a  supply,  v.  167. 

Graham,  William,  short  notice  of,  iv.  482. 

Grand  River  Mission,  nature  of  the  work,  ii.  400  ;  first  con- 
vert, 406  ;  successes,  iii.  20  ;  visit  by  Case,  62  ;  visit  by 
Loring  Grant,  65  ;  Alvin  Torry,  130  ;  Messmore,  150  ; 
visit  by  Jones,  241  ;  Geo.  Rycrson,  204  ;  Phelps,  332, 
365;  report,  452;  letter,  470;  Quar.  M.,  iv.  63;  K. 
Creighton,  338  ;  H.  Byors  in  opposition,  405. 

Grant,  Rev.  Loring,  i.  238  ;  visits  Grand  River  Mission,  iii. 

65. 
Grape  Island,  R.   Phelps  sent  there,  iii.  107  ;   S.   Waldron, 
190,  201  ;  Wm.  Case,  365  ;  report,  452  ;  John  Sunday 
in  charge,  iv.  86  ;  removal,  128. 
Qratiat,  incident  on  board  the,  iv.  169. 


296  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Gray,  Rev.  Janfes,  short  account  of,  iv.  481. 

Green,  Rev.  Anson,  D.D.,  short  account  of,  ii.  420  ;  active 
in  labor,  467  ;  new  work,  iii.  32  ;  on  trial,  53  ;  recol- 
lections, 76  ;  gratitude,  87  ;  quotations  from  MSS.,  125- 
126;  in  full  connexion,  143;  reminiscences  of  Ryan 
146  ;  Ancaster  Circuit,  148  ;  Fort  George,  241  ;  sent 
to  plead  for  missions,  242  ;  a  gracious  revival,  264  • 
first  advent  East,  299  ;  his  first  station,  345  ;  P.  E. 
380;  letter  of,  431;  his  report,  iv.  42;  Secretary  of 
Conference,  333  ;  President,  356  ;  Del.  to  Eng.,  478  • 
D.D.  conferred,  v.  38  ;  return  home,  220. 

Green,  Rev.  Alex.  T.,  some  account  of,  iv.  448. 

Greener,  Rev.  James,  account  of,  iv.  393. 

Griffin,  David,  a  local  preacher,  iii.  330;  a  supply,  381. 

Griffin,  Smith,  Esq.,  account  of,  i.  302  ;  his  after  life,  ii. 
141  ;  ord.,  295  ;  his  generosity,  iii.  9 ;  a  glimpse  of  iv. 
371. 

Griffin,  Rev.  Wm.  Smith,  short  account  of,  iv.  49  ;  ord.,  140  • 
note  from,  185. 

Griffis,  Rev.  William,  a  great  favorite,  ii.  417;  on  trial 
440;  success,  iii.  13  ;  married,  56  ;  fruit,  124  ;  a  good 
year,  149  ;  Long  Point,  244 ;  Grand  River,  265  ;  An- 
caster, 292  ;  revivals,  329  ;  Canboro',  381,  385,  413  ; 
letter  of,  430  ;  London,  454  ;  letter  from,  iv.  19 ;  lo- 
cated, 151. 

Grimsby  Circuit,  how  formed,  iv.  122  ;  glorious  revivals, 
363. 

Grindrod,  Rev.  Edmund,  President  of  the  Conf.,  iii.  440 ; 
short  account  of,  445  ;  his  death,  447. 

Guelph,  how  provided  for,  iv.  123  ;  its  first  place  of  worship, 
160;  little  society,  212-214;  changes,  321;  re-con- 
structed, 335  •  Ezra  Adams,  338. 

Guelph  District,  its  first  Chairman,  v.  149  ;  its  stations  and 
men,  190. 

Gundy,  John,  an  assistant,  iv.  405  ;  Whitby,  467  ;  excluded 
v.  32. 


INDEX.  297 

Gundy,  William,  a  local  supply,  v.  15  ;  Brock  Circuit,  33. 
Guinness,  William,  short  account  of,  ii.  335. 

H. 
Hallock,  William,  i.  27  ;  further  account  of,  ii.  87. 

Hallowell,  extent  of  Circuit,  ii.  138  ;  decrease,  249  :  Wilson 
and  Metcalf,  325 ;  two  marriages,  374 ;  Smith  and 
Wright,  467 ;  decrease,  iii.  33  ;  twin  spirits,  76  ;  Wal- 
dron  and  Atwood,  104  ;  another  decrease,  190  ;  Ryan's 
stronghold,  234 ;  two  masterly  preachers,  296  ;  two 
able  incumbents,  340 ;  a  great  staff,  386 ;  Heyland, 
415  ;  letter,  466  ;  a  good  report,  iv.  34-35  ;  Davidson 
and  Haw,  124  ;  Dis't.  Meeting  held  there,  258  ;  Camp- 
meeting,  258  ;  Warner  and  Philp,  322  ;  Jones  and  W., 
339  ;  an  M.  D.  supply,  390  ;  a  convert,  428  ;  revival, 
v.  39. 

Hallowell  Conference  of  1824,  account  of,  ii.  492  ;  of  1832, 

iii.  355. 
Hamilton  City,  names  of  first  class  formed,  i.  161  ;  its  first 

church,  iii.   125  ;  seeks  to  be   a  station,   148  ;  revival, 

333;  made  a  station,  iv.  190;  John  St.  Church,  342  ; 

new  church  opened,  v.  108. 
Hamilton  Conference  of  1827,  account  of,  iii.  142  ;  of  1835, 

iv.  1  ;  of  1839,  239;  of  1843,  382;    of  1849,  v.  46; 

of  1853,  140. 
Hamilton  District,  first  organized,  iv.  362  ;  ranks    all   full, 

427,  451  ;  its  Chairman,  v.  15  ;  its  needs,  36  ;  "  one  to 

be  sent,"  53  ;  provided  for,  103  ;  two  wanted,  126  ;  its 

share,  146;  its  stations  and  men,  182. 
Hamilton  Township  Conference  of  1826,  an  account  of,  iii. 

94. 
Hamilton,   Rev.  John,  his  early  history,  ii.  39  ;  facts,   92  ; 

located,  93. 
Hammond,  Richard  M.,  his  early  life,  v.  63. 
"  Handsome  pair,"  the,  i.  20. 
Hanna,  Thomas,  a  supply,  iv.  430. 
Hansford,  William,  portraiture  of,  v.  245. 
13* 


298  CASE,  AND   HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Hardie,  David*  his  first  Circuit,  iii.  415 ;  Brock,  456 ;  a 
supply,  iv.  127  ;  on  trial,  151  ;  ord.,  288  ;  an  oversight, 
v.  54. 

Harmon,  Thomas,  early  history,  i.  298  :  his  loyalty,  300 ; 
his  work  in  1818,  iii.  128-9  ;  ord.  deacon,  217  ;  a  stop- 
gap, 452  ;  war  of  1812,  iii.  18  ;  a  supply,  293  ;  Water- 
loo, 342  ;  Amherstburgh,  385  ;  Oavan,  414  ;  ord.,  442  ; 
member  of  Conference,  iv.  119  ;  supplies  Wallaceburg, 
v.  101. 

Harnden,  Ralph,  a  supply,  iv.  391 ;  failed,  429. 

Harper,  Ephraim  B.,  a  supply,  iv.>344  ;  his  portraiture,  346. 

Harris,  Rev.  Benoni,  ii.  2. 

Harris,  Elijah,  a  supply,  iv.  344  ;  his  large  family,  345  ;  re- 
moval, 362. 

Harris,  James,  short  sketch  of,  v.  123. 

Harris,  Rev.  Reuben,  i.  16  j  further  account  of,  71  ;  death, 
72  ;  another  glimpse,  139. 

Hartman,  John,  death  of,  iii.  486. 

Harvard,  Rev.  William  M.,  D.D.,  Pres.  of  Conf.,  iv.  123  ; 
his  early  life,  130  ;  notice  of  arrival,  144 ;  Toronto- 
Conf.,  183 ;  Lower  Can.  Dist.,  199  ;  complimentary, 
200  ;  L,  C.  D.  M.,  327  ;  Selley's  estimate,  329  ;  Mon- 
treal D.  M.,  469  ;  Can.  West  Dist.  M.,  v.  1 ;  visit  to 
Toronto  Conference,  2 ;  England  and  his  subsequent 
death,  7- 

Haskell,  Rev.  Squire  B.,  short  account  of,  ii.  -269. 

Haw,  Rev.  William,  a  supply,  iv.  40  ;  Port  Hope,  322  ;  visit 
to  England,  v.  54  ;  Glanford,  68. 

Hawke,  William,  a  supply,  v.  188  ;  his  early  life,  209. 

Hay  Bay  catastrophe,  ii.  246. 

Hazzard,  Rev.  John,  ii.  41. 

Head,  Sir  F.  B.,  his  visit  to  the  Credit  Mission,  iv.  129. 

Healey,  Rev.  Ezra,  first  notice  of,  ii.  350  ;  his  early  history, 
425  ;  letter  from  Everts,  427  ;  on  trial,  429 ;  his  jour- 
nal, 430  ;  extracts,  479  ;  Cornwall,  iii.  80 ;  more  ex- 
tracts, 82  ;  a  profitable  time,  94 ;  home  again,  97  ;  quo- 
tations from  his  diary,  98-100  ;  Kingston,  202 ;  Brock- 


INDEX.  299 

ville,  246;  Augusta,  345,  388;  Matilda,  415;  good 
news,  431;  Bytown,  iv.  54;  honors,  122;  extracts, 
193-197  ;  details,  253  ;  Camp-meeting,  258  ;  his  death, 
v.  66. 

Heck,  Jacob,  i.  136. 

Heck,  Samuel,  ii.  83  ;  meets  Rev.  H.  Pope,  143  ;  his  death, 
iv.  350  ;  his  antecedents,  iv.  422. 

Hecks,  i.  5  ;  they,  Embury,  and  others,  6  ;  at  Big  Creek,  8  ; 
at  Ashgrove,  17;  their  descendants,  126;  Barbara's 
funeral  sermon,  128  ;  their  works  follow,  v.  235. 

Hedding,  Bishop,  his  opinion  of  Byan,  i.  25  ;  he  visits 
Canada,  ii.  493  ;  Conf.  at  the  "  Fifty,"  iii.  52  ;  presides 
at  the  Conf.  of  1827,  142  ;  and  1828,  210  ;  he  visits  the 
Conf.  at  Kingston,  iii.  276  ;  a  letter  from,  314. 

Herkimer,  William,  to  go  to  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  iii.  373  ;  some 
account  of,  iv.  281  ;  another  glimpse,  386. 

Herron,  James,  i.  15  ;  further  account  of,  67. 

Hetherington,  Rev.  John  P.,  his  arrival  in  Canada,  iii.  252 ; 
Kingston,  349  ;  he  visits  Hallowell  Conf.,  363  ;  King- 
ston, 396  ;  in  Toronto,  403  ;  England,  465. 

Hess,  William,  a  native  convert,  iii.  187. 

Hewitt,  William  T.,  a  supply,  v.  206. 

Heyland,  Edward,  short  notice  of,  ii.  455  ;  Ancaster,  iii.  57  ; 
death,  57  ;  his  grave,  127. 

Heyland,  Rev.  Rowley,  his  first  Circuit,  ii.  456  ;  new  settle- 
ments, iii.  17  ;  Long  Point,  58,  126  ;  Niagara,  147  ; 
Bay  Quinte,  267  ;  Hallowell,  296  ;  success,  339  ;  Hallo- 
well,  386,  415  ;  letter  to  "  Guardian,"  430  ;  a  gracious 
revival,  iv.  32  ;  Nelson,  338  ;  superannuated,  v.  184. 

Hibbard,  Rev.  Robert,  i.  142  :  St.  Francis,  213  ;  incident, 
214;  Ottawa,  271;  death,  273  ;  further  reference  to,  ii. 
118. 

Hick,  Rev.  John,  his  letter  to  Mr.  Benson,  ii.  74 ;  short  no- 
tice of,  77;  another  letter,  80;  his  labors  in  Quebec, 
117;  letter  to  Miss'y.  Com.,  200;  Montreal,  338; 
Chairman,  387  ;  record  of  success,  437  ;  Europe,  iii.  47 ; 
Stanstead,  307 ;  Quebec,  437  ;  death,  487. 


300  CASE,    AND   HIS   COTEMPORARIES. 

Hickcox,  Rev.  Jtoseph,  his  early  history,  ii.  9  ;  success,  39 ; 
Ancaster,  162  ;  Thames,  219  ;  located,  231. 

Hierarchy  overthrown,  i.  5. 

Higher  education,  early  movement  for,  ii.  217;  further  ef- 
forts, iii.  256  ;  an  agent  appointed,  315. 

Hill,  Darius  M.,  a  supply,  v.  148. 

Hill,  Joseph,  v.  108  ;  great  success,  134;  Bruce  Mines,  193. 
Hilliard,  Major,  his  testimony  concerning  Thomas^Harmon, 
i.  299. 

Hillier,  Rev.  Daniel,  notice  of,  ii.  387,  439  ;  drowned,  489-90. 
Historic  lessons,  Montreal  and  its  churches,  v.  228-233. 
Hitchcock,  Barnabas,  an  exhorter,  ii.  18  ;  a  supply,  iv.  Ill 

full  account  of,  182  ;  desists,  328. 
Hobbs,  Robert,  short  sketch  of,  v.  91.  ;  Cornwall,  205. 
Hodgins,  Dr.,  his  "History  of  Canada"  quoted,  iv.  176. 
Holmes,  Rev.  Ninian,  his  nationality,  <fec,  i.   146  ;  further 

account   of,  178;  his  usefulness  and  death,  264;  his 

memoir,  265 ;  his  tomb,  266. 
»Holtby,  Rev.   Matthias,  on  trial,  iii.  364;  Toronto,  366; 

Guelph,  iv.   321 ;    secular  things,  335  ;  Oxford,  337  ; 

supernumerary,  v.  184. 
Hopkins,  Caleb,  Esq.,  iii.  149. 
Hopkins,  Silas,  on  trial,  i.  255  ;  located,  261. 
Horning,  Abraham  and  Isaac,  i.  160. 
Hough,  James,  glimpses  of,  iv.  160  ;  letter  from,  212. 
Hough,  John,  a  supply  for  Morris,  v.  192. 
Houghton,  Luther,  introduced,  iv.  125;  his  liberality,  260; 

exhorting,  351 ;  he  enters  the  itinerancy,  v.  154;  Claren- 
don, 206. 

Howard,  Rev.  Isaac  B.,  introduced,  iv.  321  ;  on  trial,  334  ; 

Vic.    Coll.,   394;    Journal  Secretary,  v.    140;  Sec.   of 

Conf.,  169  ;  Dundas,  182. 
Howard,  Thomas  S.,  obeys  a  call,  v.  245. 
Howard,  Rev.  Vincent  B.,  a  supply,  iii.  415  ;  By  town  and 

Hull,  457 ;  Peterboro',  iv.  339 ;  Demorestville,  v.  201. 


INDEX.  301 

Howe,   Rev.   Samuel,  i.    16;   further  account  of,   68;   his 
obituary,  69. 

Howes,  John,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.  347  ;  short  notice  of,  421  ; 
ord.,  v.  29  ;  Cornwall,  205. 

Hubbard,  Miss,  teaching  at   Grape  Island,  iii.  169  ;  visits 

New  York,  222  ;  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Case,  227. 
Hudson's  Bay  and  Rocky  Mountains  District,  its  missions, 

beginning  of,  iv.  275  ;  its  first  list  of  stations,  v.  214. 
Hughes,  Rev.  James,  quoted,  i.   161  ;  teaching,  iii.   344;  a 

supply,  iv.  261  ;  his  portraiture,  344  ;  Millbrook,  v.  199. 
Hugill,  Joseph,  his  early  life,  v.  65  ;  a  change,   101  ;  Mor- 
peth, 189. 
Hulbert,  Rev.  Cephas,  short  account  of,  i.  148  ;  success,  178  ; 

locates,  198. 
Hull,  Village  of,  ii.  17  ;  circuit  formed,  iii.  136  ;  boundaries 

changed,   207;  McFadden  there,   416;   its  extent,  iv. 

55  ;  one  sent  back,  126  ;  increase,  v.  17. 
Hunt,  David,  introduced,  v.  152. 
Hunt,  John,  a  question  asked,  iv.  467  ;  ord.,  v.  29. 
Huntingdon,  Simon,  brief  notice  of,  iii.  239  ;  on  trial,  253  ; 

Y.  Street,  268  ;  Westminster,  293  ;  first  charge,  346  ; 

Bonchire,    390 ;    Augusta,    415 ;    letter  from,   iv.    41  ; 

Grimsby,  182. 
Huntington,  Silas,  his  early  life,  v.  75 ;  Gatineau,  206. 
Hurd,  Aaron,  first  notice  of,  iii.  236  ;  Scugog,  241  ;  ceased, 

366. 

Hurlburt,  Asahel,  short  account  of,  iii.  205;  on  trial,  210; 

Brockville,   246  ;    Westminster,   265  ;    L.    Point,   293  ; 

Thames,  337  ;  Rideau,  389  ;  power  of  God,  391  ;  Eliza- 

bethtown,  416;  three  letters  from,  iv.   50;  comments, 

218  ;  Chairman,  358  ;  Secretary  of  Conf,  v.  61  ;  Mait- 

land,  205. 
Hurlburt,  Erastus,  some  notice  of,  iv.  447  ;  ord.,  v.  29  ;  Can. 

East,  156. 
Hurlburt,  Heman,  his  death,  v.  163. 
Hurlburt,  Jesse,  on    trial,  334  ;    notice  of,   336 ;    Female 

Academy,  370. 


302  CASE,  AND  HIS  COTEMPORARIES. 

Hurlburt,  Sylvester,  first  mention  of,  iii.  262  ;  Grape  Island, 
366,  417  ;  short  notice  of,  iv.  119  ;  Lake  Simcoe,  339  ; 
Smith's  Falls,  v.  205. 

Hurlburt,  Thomas,  his  early  life,  iii.  232  ;  Muncey,  266, 
366 ;  Saugeen,  417;  letter  from,  471  ;  on  trial,  iv.  2; 
light,  74;  translating,  170;  L.  Superior,  214-232; 
church  in  the  wilderness,  270  ;  report  of  labors,  300  ; 
miss'y.  travels,  373;  a  supply,  v.  104  ;  Hud.  B.  T.,  164 ; 
exploring,  214. 

Huston,  John,  first  labors,  iii.  19  ;  St.  Clair,  59  ;  "Westmin- 
ster, 128;  on  trial,  143  ;  London,  150;  Thames,  245; 
a  large  gain,  274  ;  Albion,  332  ;  located,  412  ;  in  oppo- 
sition, 450. 

Hutchinson,  James,  portraiture  of,  iv.  252. 

Hutchinson,  John,  New  Ireland,  iv.  471  ;  Adelaide,  v.  70; 
a  change,  190. 

Hutchinson,  Richard,  introduced,  iv.  180;  Adventism,  380  ; 
censure,  409. 

Hyatt,  Mr.  and  Mrs.,  i.  177  ;  preaching  in  their  barn,  214. 


Incidents  :  in  Black  Biver  forest,  i.  18;  James  Coleman  and 
James  Gage,  42  ;  in  journey  of  Peter  Van  Nest,  76  ; 
of  clerical  insolence,  122  ;  characteristics  of  Case  arid 
Pearse,  130  ;  of  Case's  journey  from  York  to  Hamilton, 
163  ;  of  Bishop  Asbury's  crossing  Lake  Ontario,  236  ; 
of  Van  Nest,  269  ;  of  Byan,  285;  of  the  war,  317-321 ; 
romantic,  ii.  18 ;  of  Wm.  Case,  42  ;  of  an  old  Scotch 
woman,  43  ;  at  Father  Waldron's,  67 ;  horse  trading, 
153  ;  a  mother's  sacrifice,  155  ;  a  rowdy  arrested,  159  ; 
a  wood  bee,  189  ;  journey  on  the  St.  Lawrence,  206  ; 
heroic  daring,  215  ;  thrilling  events,  220  ;  Metcalfs 
ministry,  254  ;  Fitch  Reed,  260  ;  perils  in  a  snowstorm, 
264  ;  conversion  of  a  Roman  Catholic,  265  ;  a  son  of 
Belial,  313  ;  a  blacksmith,  313  ;  State  prison,  314  ;  a 
child's  experience,  331  ;  an  infidel's  conversion,  332  ; 
preaching  to  Indians,  355  ;  Infant  baptism  valid,  357  ; 
conversion  of  a  R.  C,  367 ;  a  prodigal  son,  367 ;  the 


INDEX.  303 

providence  of  God,  370  ;  perilous  journey,  405  ;  narrow 
escape,  iii.  36 ;  Indian  converts,  95  ;  wanted  a  wife, 
129. 
Increase  of  members,  i.  15,  16  ;  general,  118,  140  ;  on  Case's 
Dist.,  242,  257;  corrected,  334;  in  1816-17,  ii.  82  ;  in 
Lower  Province,  127  ;  on  Niagara  Circuit,  130  ;  in  L. 
Canada,  201,  349  ;  TJ.  C,  384  ;  for  both  Up.  and  L.  C, 
390.  See  end  of  each  year  in  each  vol.  for  report  of 
incr.  or  deer. 

Independence  of  IT.  S.,  when  acknowledged,  i.  5. 

Indian  affairs,  first  Committe  on,  ii.  349  ;  applic.  to  Gov.  for 
location  at  River  Credit,  iii.  22. 

Indians,  Six  Nation,  visit  by  Alvin  Torry,  ii.  358  ;  Mission 
begun,  400  ;  many  conversions,  443-451  ;  their  first 
church,  iii.  20  ;  number  of  members,  24  ;  a  good  visit, 
45  ;  conversions  during  Conference  Sessions,  95  ;  in- 
dustry, 161  ;  pagans  converted,  179  ;  extent  of  Indian 
work,  285  ;  number  of  converts,  306  ;  Manual  Labor 
School,  361. 

Indian  Camp-meeting,  full  account  of,  iv.  78. 

Indian  names  of  lakes,  i.  9  ;  of  Circuits,  1 2. 

Indian  tradition,  i.  165. 

Indians,  Wyandots,  their  first  missionary,  ii.  360 ;  further 
notice  of,  463  ;  number,  iii.  54. 

Ingalls,  Rev.  Edmund  S.,  short  account  of,  iv.  107  ;  contrasts, 
262;  Sec'y.  of  Conf.,  v.  140;  supernumerary,  165. 

Intemperance,  Indian  resolution  on,  ii.  403  ;  drowning 
whisky,  iii.  113  ;  craft  in  danger,  119. 

Irvine,  Rev.  Alex.,  short  account  of,  ii.  392  ;  his  history,  iii. 
309  ;  B.  Quinte,  342  ;  York,  381  ;  Stamford,  454  ;  his 
removal  and  death,  iv.  8. 

Irvingite  heresy,  the,  iii.  60  ;  mischief  of,  485. 

Ivison,  James  A.,  a  supply,  v.  199. 

J. 

Jackson,  Edward,  his  arrival  in  Canada,  iii.  55  ;  a  glimpse 
of,  iv.  153. 


304  CASE,  AND   HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES. 

Jackson,  James,»on  trial,  ii.  96  ;  early  history,  98  ;  Alvin 
Torry's  estimate  of  him,  158  ;  t>rd.  deacon,  217  ;  L. 
Point,  224,  306  ;  success,  355  ;  suspended,  391,  399 ; 
'  ord.  Elder,  iii.  3  ;  Thames,  12  ;  Westminster,  58  ;  sup'd., 
97  ;  rival  societies,  235  ;  causing  more  division,  244-5  ; 
expelled,  254  ;  another  glimpse,  iv.  294. 

Jackson,  John,  his  liberality,  v.  36. 

Jacobs,  Peter,  incidental  meeting  with,  iii.  71  ;  exhorting 
with  power,  179  ;  going  to  Hud.  Bay  Ter.,  iv.  278. 

Jacques,  George,  his  portraiture,  v.  178;  his  early  life,  209- 

James,  Solomon,  a  native  helper,  v.  98. 

Jeffers,  Robert,  on  trial,  ii.  140  ;  Augusta,  178  ;  Bay  Quinte, 
325  ;  his  subsequent  work  and  family,  375. 

Jeffers,  Rev.  Thomas,  first  mention  of,  ii.  375  ;  on  trial,  iv. 
334 ;  his  antecedents,  336  ;  Peterboro',  339  ;  Welland, 
v.  183. 

Jeffers,  Rev.  Wellington,  D.D.,  first  mention  of,  ii.  375  ;  his 
conversion,  iii.  344;  portraiture  of,  iv.  128;  on  trial, 
151;    ord.,   334;   where   born,    335;  Belleville,    339; 

'         Montreal,  v.  211. 

Jenkins,  Rev.  John,  his  return  from  India,  v.  41  ;  visit  to 
Hamilton  Conf.,  50. 

Jennings,  David,  a  probationer,  iv.  445  ;  Merrickville,  v. 
205. 

Jewell,  Rev.  Joseph,  i.  15  ;  removes,  16  ;  further  account  of, 
57  ;  location  and  death,  59  ;  correction,  282,  326  ;  addi- 
tional, 329. 

Jobson,  Rev.  Dr.,  his  portraiture  of  Bishop  George,  ii.  84. 

Johnson,  Abbot,  a  local  preacher,  iv.  54 ;  a  helper,  125. 

Johnson,  James,  Grape  Island,  iii.  366. 

Johnson,  William,  his  conversion,  ii.  15. 

Johnston,  David  A,  introduced,  v.  202. 

Johnston,  Rev.  Edward,  short  history  of,  ii.  108  ;  his  non- 
arrival  in  Canada,  118  ;  a  Chairman,  203. 

Johnston,  George  B.,  a  six  months'  supply,  v.  210. 

Johnston,  John,  an  assistant  missionary,  iv.  111. 


INDEX.  305 

Jones,  Benjamin,  some  account  of,  iv.  388  ;  a  supply,  v.  70  ; 
Picton,  105. 

Jones,  Henry,  a  supply,  v.  106  ;  further  mention  of,  117. 

Jones,  Joseph,  a  supply,  v.  248. 

Jones,  Rev.   Peter,  1st,  his  early  history,  ii.  52  ;  marriage, 

53 ;    Ottawa,    132  ;    superannuated,   352 ;   located,   iii. 

444. 

Jones,  Rev.  Peter,  (Kakewahquonaby,)  his  early  life,  ii.  406- 
415 ;  exhorting,  462  ;  first  Indian  Church,  iii.  20 ; 
fruits,  23 ;  extracts  from  journal,  61  ;  incidents  of 
travel,  71-72;  evangelizing,  111-121;  on  trial,  143; 
visit  to  Grape  Island,  160  ;  more  extracts  from  journal, 
161-167;  journal  again,  170-177,  179-185;  with  Case 
itinerating,  219-226;  superintending,  240;  extracts 
from  journal,  257-8  ;  passing  notes,  269  ;  still  itinerat- 
ing, 279-280 ;  further  labors,  301-303  ;  voyage  to  Eng- 
land, 304-6;  results  of  visit,  314;  letters  from  Case, 
316-326  ;  vote  of  approval,  364  ;  translating,  &c,  366- 
67;  ordination  letters,  370;  his  journal  again,  129; 
more  quotations,  161-168;  in  England,  201-208;  gene- 
ral miss'y.  work,  v.  54  ;  encouraging  letter,  77  ;  in  re- 
tirement, 147;  visit  to  Syracuse,  221. 

Jones,  Rev.  Richard,  letter  from,  ii.  383  ;  his  conversion, 
435  ;  brief  reference  to,  482  ;  setting  out,  iii.  78 ; 
Augusta,  133  ;  on  trial,  143  ;  Perth,  206  ;  death  of  his 
father,  207 ;  open  air  preaching,  248  ;  reminiscences, 
272  ;  Kingston,  299  ;  Belleville,  341  ;  three  field  meet- 
ings, 387;  Cobourg,  415;  good  report,  iv.  34;  ap- 
pointed Chairman,  153  ;  effective  labor,  198  ;  President, 
418;  Yonge  St.,  v.  182. 

Jones,  Rev.  William,  ii.  143  ;  his  antecedents,  152  ;  An- 
caster,  225  ;  Rideau,  382. 

Jones,  Rev.  Zenas,  i.  195. 

Jubilee  sermon,  William  Case's  extract  from,  i.  9  ;  preached 
in  London,  v.  239  ;  his  text,  240. 

K. 

Karkaner,  Father,  i.  109. 


306  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPOEARIES. 

Keagan,  Williarfl,  a  supply,  iv.  483  ;  a  mighty  man  of  faith, 
v.  129. 

Keefer,  Geo.,  Esq.,  friendly  to  the  last,  ii.  341. 

Keeler,  Rev.  Sylvanus,  his  first  Canada  Circuit,  i.  14 ;  fur- 
ther notice  of,  15  ;  his  conversion,  &c,  21  ;  extent  of 
his  Circuit,  22. 

Kelsey,  Rev.  James,  a  warm-hearted  pioneer,  i.  195. 

Kendal,  Rev.  David,  Lake  Champlain,  i.  11. 

Kennedy,  George,  contrasts,  iv.  359-60  ;  Gait,  v.  184. 

Kennedy,  Jacob,  a  supply,  iii.  331  ;  six  months  at  Dunn- 
ville,  v.  210. 

Keough,  Jabez  B.,  first  mention  of,  iv.  284 ;  his  portraiture, 
v.  198. 

Keough,  James,  Esq.,  home  of,  iv.  284. 

Keough,  Thomas  S.,  incidentally  spoken  of,  iv.  284  ;  fraternal 
'  relation,  v.  198. 

Ker,  Rev.  Peter,  some  account  of,  iii.  412 ;  "Westminster, 
413;  Gosfield,  454;  super'd.,  v.  182. 

Kerr,  John  L.,  short  notice  of,  v.  152 ;  Mono,  190. 
'Ketche,  Metig,  or  Big  Tree,  v.  131. 

Kilborn,  Ira  B.,  a  supply,  v.  146.     „ 

Kilborn,  Jared,  a  local  preacher,  v.  192. 

Kilbourn,  Rev.  David,  i.  215;  his  life  and  death,  244-5  ;  a 
correction,  327. 

Kincardine  Mission,  by  Mr.  Muirhead,  a  local  supply,  v.  69  ; 
Wm.  Creighton,  190. 

Kingston,  the  first  Canada  Circuit,  i.  9  ;  its  ancient  name, 
12  ;  preaching  in  the  market,  112  ;  numb,  of  members, 
22  ;  request  for  help,  122  ;  Dist.  Meeting,  214  ;  more 
pastoral  work,  376  ;  numbers,  385  ;  glorious  revival,  iii. 
69  ;  how  promoted,  71  ;  Healey  and  Evans,  202-3  ;  in- 
crease, 245  ;  Evans  and  Bevitt,  270  ;  faithfully  served, 
299  ;  H.,  307  ;  a  station,  343  ;  Wm.  Smith,  386 ;  Wm. 
Ryerson,  415  ;  Turner,  438  ;  some  account  of,  iv.  31  ; 
Sydenham  St.  Church,  v.  77. 

Kingston  Conference  of  1830,  account  of,  iii.  276  ;  of  1834, 
439  ;  of  1838,  iv.  183  ;  of  1846,  472 ;  of  1852,  v.  115. 


INDEX.  307 

Kingston  District,  John  Carroll,  its  first  Chairman,  iv.  428  ; 

his  supplies,  452  ;  one  vacancy,  483  ;  its  Chairman,  v. 

15;    none  wanted,   37,   43;    well  manned,    106,  129; 

three  vacancies,  154  ;  its  stations  and  men,  202. 
Kingston  Meeting  of  Eepresentatives,  account  of,  v.  221. 
Kirkland,  John,  iv.  160. 

Knight,  Rev.  Richard,  narrow  escape  of,  iii.  437. 
Knowlan,  Rev.  James,  estimate  of  his  character,  ii.   386  ; 

Montreal,    436  ;    Melbourne,   iii.    50 ;    Kingston,    88 ; 

Stanstead,  208. 
Koyl,  Ephraim  L.,  his  early  life,  v.  141. 

L. 

La  Chute,  i.  22  ;  a  society  there,  109. 

La  Dow,  Samuel,  short  account  of,  iv.  360  ;  removal,  484. 

Laird,  John,  G-.,  his  early  history,  v.  29. 

Laird,  William  H.,  portraiture  of,  v.  244. 

Lake,  John  Nelson,  portraiture  of,  v.  244  ;  his  reasons  for 

locating,  245. 
Lake  country,  the,  i.  9. 
Lake  Simcoe  Mission,  Miller  and  Currie,  iii.  334-5  ;  report, 

451 ;  its  extent,  iv.  281. 
Lakes,  Indian  names  of,  i.  12. 
Lambert,  Rev.   Chandly,  some  account  of,  i.   158 ;    further 

notice,  178,  195;  obit.,  201. 
Lang,  Rev.  Matthew,  short  account  of,  ii.   487  ;  useful,  488  ; 

winning  souls,   348  ;  St.   Armand's,  89,   140  ;  Quebec, 

307,  349  ;  St.  Armand's,  396,  438  ;  his  son's  death,  iv. 

130  ;  his  address,  314  ;  Ins  death,  v.  59. 
Langlois,  Peter,  his  early  life,  &c,  i.  136  ;  his  journal,  145  ; 

joins  the  Church,  146;  begins  to  study  English,  156  ; 

app't.  as  a  class  leader,   211  ;  begins  to  preach,   282  ; 

writes   for   a   supply,  .310;  in  England,   ii.    27;   new 

church,    76;  Mr.  Hick's  labors.  117;  the  cholera,   iii. 

349. 
Lanning,  Gideon,  his  early  history,  ii.  99  ;  his  own  version, 

100;  Detroit,  128. 


308  CASE,  AND   HIS   COTEMPOKABIBS. 

Lanning,  Ralph,  at  Quar.  Meeting,  i.  314;  his  character^ 
315  ;  repeated,  ii.  15. 

Lanton,  Rev.  Henry,  his  portraiture,  iv.  234  ;  doubts,  285  ; 
probation,  328  ;  recommended  for  ordination,  353 ; 
Hamilton,  405,  435;  Belleville,  467;  Canada  East,  v. 
38  ;  Clarenceville,  212. 

Latimer,  James  F.,  his  portraiture,  v.  243. 

Lavell,  Charles,  brief  account  of,  iv.  385  ;  Montreal,  v.  54 ; 
Toronto,  182.  ' 

Law,  John,  introduction  of,  iii.  411;  Cavan,  415;  Dum- 
fries, 455;  letter  from,  iv.  17;  Yonge  Street,  250; 
Oshawa,  v.  132. 

Lawrence,  George,  i.  320. 

Lawrence,  John,  his  marriage  to  Embury's  widow,  i.  8. 

Lawson,  Thomas,  short  notice  of,  v.  241. 

Lay  celebrities,  i.  128. 

Lee,  Daniel,  some  account  of,  iii.  397. 

Lee,  Jason,  obituary  of,  iii.  397. 

"Lee,  Eev.  Jesse,  his  District,  i.  9. 

Lee,  Rev.  Luther,  visits  Canada  Conf.,  iv.  187  ;  incident  of, 
188. 

Lever,  John,  a  supply,  iv.  28 ;  letters  from,  29  ;  hard  times, 
253. 

Lewis,  James,  Esq.,  and  Niagara  Circuit,  ii.  40. 

Lewis,  John,  short  account  of,  ii.  19-20. 

Lindsay,  Father  Purdy's  shanty,  iii.  344 ;  class  revived,  v. 
105. 

Literary  obligations  of  Canada  to  Methodist  preachers,  i.  153. 

Liverpool  Minutes,  the,  iv.  121. 

Local  preachers  preparing  the  way,  i.  6  ;  Dunham's  helpers, 
14;  pioneers  and  pastors,  326;  their  first  District 
Conf.,  327  ;  its  members,  328  ;  covetous  of  orders,  345  ; 
their  Conf.  of  April,  1821,  377  ;  two  helpers,  379  ; 
Seth  Crawford  and  E.  Stoney,  410 ;  two  old  country- 
men, 419  ;  Rustan's  revival,  437  ;  demands,  465  ;  Conf. 
of  1824,  471  ;  extraordinary  proceedings,  472  ;  Conf.  of 


INDEX.  309 

1825,  iii.  9  ;  praying  Jimmy,  40  ;  Conf.  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  68  ;  plan  for  Circuit  first  made  in  Canada,  270  ; 
three  useful,  330;  another,  331;  two  more,  346;  four 
others,  383  ;  oppose  the  Union,  420  ;  meeting  of  dis- 
satisfied, 420-422;  letter,  434;  conflict,  440. 

Lochead,  Robert,  some  account  of,  iv.  368 ;  another 
glimpse,  390. 

Loekwood,  Rev.  Joseph,  introductory  account  of ,  i.  178  ;  ord. 
deacon,  198  ;  Yonge  Street  and  the  coon  hunt,  224  ;  lo- 
cated, 248. 

London  Circuit  organized,  ii.  452  ;  E.  Stoney,  iii.  13,  59  ;  a 
change,  127;  M.  Whiting,  244;  Bailey,  293,  337; 
Griffis,  454  ;  letter  from  Griffis,  460  ;  union,  v.  14  ;  ex- 
planation, 186. 

London,  Conference  of  1855,  some  account  of,  v.  237  ;  proli- 
fic in  recruits,  241. 

London  District,  formation  of,  iii.  334" ;  account  of,  384 ; 
stations  for  1835,  iv.  16  ;  reports,  16-21  ;  David  Wright 
in  charge,  122  ;  changes,  249  ;  its  stations  and  men  in 
1841,  337;  changes,  362  ;  its  vacancies,  450  ;  filled  up, 
481  ;  its  stations  and  men  in  1854,  v.  186. 

Long,  William,  introduced,  iii.  330  ;  his  visit  to  Yonge 
Street,  382. 

Long  Point  Circuit,  i.  19;  extent  of,  110,  289;  Alvin 
Tony,  ii.  154  ;  success,  158  ;  Camp-meeting,  159  ;  large 
increase,  306  ;  decrease,  356  ;  Ferguson  and  C'ulp,  400  ; 
stationary,  iii.  12;  Heyland,  58,  126;  increase,  149, 
244  ;  Gatchell  and  Patrick,  265  ;  three  men,  293  ;  suc- 
cess, 336  ;  W.  and  P.,  384  ;  notes  of  victory,  386  ;  B. 
and  W.,  413  ;  Biggar,  454;  letter,  461  ;  full  details,  iv. 
10  ;  name  changed,  122. 

Long  Woods,  a  night  in  the,  i.  106  ;  Ryan  there,  ii.  484. 

Lord,  Eev.  Wm.,  Pres.  of  Conf.,  iii.  475  ;  labors,  etc.,  476- 
481 ;  advice  from,  496;  apostolic  labors, i v.  90-101 ;  letter, 
114;  push  and  labor,  115  ;  his  return  to  England,  130  ; 
his  last  letter,  142. 

Losee,  Joshua,  conversion  of,  i.  7. 

Losee,  Rev.  William,  his  power  in  prayer,  i.  7  ;  Kingston,  9; 


310  CASE,    AND  HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

early  history,  1 0 ;  his  age  and  appearance,  1 1  ;  name 
and  extent  of  his  Circuits,  1 2  ;  desists  from  the  work, 
13  ;  in  business,  14  ;  visits  Bay  Quinte  Circuit,  ii.  50  ; 
his  old  age,  51. 

Loverin,  Jonathan,  a  supply,  iv.  453. 

Lovey's,  Rev.  John,  wanted,  iii.  260  ;  his  future,  261. 

Lower  Canada  Camp-meeting,  iv.  111. 

Lower  Canada  and  its  missionaries,  ii.  21;  interesting  details, 
21-27  ;  more  missionaries,  37;  their  success,  71-82  ;  their 
station  list,  106  ;  full  reports,  107-127  ;  labors  and  suc- 
cesses, 199-215;  Kingston  Dist.  Meeting,  270;  official 
documents,  271-275  ;  stations  for  1819,  276  ;  letter  from 
R.  L.  Lusher,  277 ;  letter  from  T.  Catterick,  279  ;  in- 
teresting news,280-283  ;  the  year  1820,  338-349  ;  1821 
and  its  stations,  385  ;  more  facts  of  history,  386-390  ; 
meagre  details,  436-439  ;  a  copy  from  the  "  Magazine," 
485  ;  letter  from  Mr.  Booth,  &c,  486-492  ;  the  year,  1824, 
iii.  46-52;  the  year  1825,  88-93;  1826,  139-142;  1827, 
208-209;  1828,  250-253  ;Wm.  Squire, Turner,and  others, 
274-276  ;  change  ot  several  laborers,  306-309  ;  a  hurried 
glance,  348  ;  hard  to  determine,391 ;  the  celebrated  Jason 
Lee,  396-398  ;  two  letters,  399-401 ;  fragmentary  refer- 
ences, 486-487  ;  Mr.  Lord's  letter,  488;  Mr.  Crosscombe's 
letter,  489-492  ;  revivals,  494-499 ;  scattered  inklings,  iv. 
107-110;  camp-Meeting,  111;  missionary  meeting  in 
Montreal,  112;  Mr.  Crosscombe's  report,  141;  letter  from 
Mr.  Lord,  142;  from  Mr.  Harvard,  144;  stations  and  men 
for  1837-8,  179  ;  comments  on,  180-183  ;  gleanings,  233- 
239;  stations  for  1839,  283;  no  increase,  287;  the 
"Wesleyan"published,327  ;  Dist.  Meeting,  328  ;  number 
of  churches,  &c,  329  ;  manuscript  minutes,  extracts  from, 
352-356  ;  Mr.  Stinson  called  home,  375  ;  changes  in  the 
stations,  379  ;  numbers,  381  ;  another  laborious  year, 
408-417  ;  Montreal  Dist.  Meeting,  437  ;  comments,  438- 
443  ;  more  particulars,  469-472  ;  a  new  name,  488  ;  de- 
crease, 489  ;  a  brief  exhibit,  v.  20-24  ;  Quebec  Dist. 
Meeting,  stations,  <fec,  41-45  ;  Rev.  B.  Slight's  journal, 
57-61  ;  quota,  from  "  Guardian,"  79  ;  stations  for -1850, 
80;  Mr.  Slight's  record.  81-84;  Rev.   J.   Borland's  re- 


INDKX.  311 

cord,  111;  appointments,  113;  Rev.  J.  Brock's  letter 
and  labors,  113;  Granby  Church,  114;  statement  of 
affairs  by  Mr.  S.,  134-136;  Mr.  Borland's  letter,  137; 
death  of  Rev.  Wm.  Squire,  138  ;  efforts  for  union  with 
the  "West,  140  ;  last  meeting  of  the  District,  164  ;  edi- 
torial on,  167;  terms  accepted,  173;  union  ratified, 
211. 

Loyalists,  TJ.  E.,  withdraw  from  the  American  Republic, 
i.  3. 

Luckey,  Rev.  Samuel,  his  opinion  of  Bangs,  i.  152  ;  on 
Ottawa  Circuit,  214  ;  short  account  of,  250  ;  letter  to  Dr. 
Bangs,  271  ;  honors,  273  ;  letter  about  Case,  ii.  132  ;  his 
visit  to  Can.  Conf.,  iv.  382. 

Luke,  Wm.  M.  C,  a  supply,  v.  207. 

Lunn,  William,  Esq.,  his  letter  to  the  Home  Com.,  iii.  399  ; 

another  glimpse,  v.  136. 
Lusher,    Rev.  Robt.   L.,  his  arrival  in    Montreal,  ii.    118; 

letter  of,    125;  another,  200;  his    work  in  Montreal, 

177  ;    Quebec,    338  ;  Melbourne,    347  ;  Halifax,   387  ; 

Chairman,  iv.  180  ;  editor  of  "  Wesleyan,"  327  ;   again 

effective,  386  ;  death,  440. 
Lutheran  ministers,  i.  8,  325. 
Lyon's  Creek  Circuit  formed,  ii.   309  ;  why  so  named,  310  ; 

Alvin  Torry,    357;  decrease,  iii.  100;  Messmore,  57; 

increase,  124. 
Lyons,  an  exhorter,  holds  meetings  in  Bay  Quinte  country, 

i.  7  ;  his  adherents,  11. 
Lyscomb,  Cyrus,  introduced,  iii.  246  ;  marriage  and  removal, 

272. 

M. 
Mack,  Rev.  Wilbur,  brief  notice  of,  ii.  194. 
Madden,  Rev.  David  B.,  his  birth  and  baptism,  i.  297  ;  going 

to  Cobourg,  iv.  259;  on   trial,   334;  Dumfries,  337;  a 

year  to  rest,  361  ;  Oshawa,  v.  182. 
Madden,  Rev.  Thos.,  first'gliinpse  of,  i.  16  ;  Smith's  Creek,  19  ; 

history  of,  32  ;  his  appointment  for  1807,  1 45  ;  Montreal, 

156  ;  Ottawa,  177  ;  removal  to  U.  S.,   246  ;  returns  to 


312  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORAKIES. 

Canada,  297  ;  Conference  Steward,  ii.  1 ;  Augusta,  12  ; 
Bay  Quinte,  48;  Steward  again,  90;  Hallowell,  170; 
Conference  work,  217  ;  on  committee,  296 ;  his  talents, 
373  ;  Pres.  Elder,  iii.  5  ;  Superintendent  of  Missions, 
54  ;  unabated  zeal,  123  ;  Bideau,  249  ;  decay  of  energy, 
270  ;  Brockville,  299  ;  Elizabethtown,  345  ;  illness,  388; 
sup'd.,  412  ;  death,  444. 

Maffitt,  Rev.  John  1ST.,  visits  Toronto,  iv.  457;  portraiture 
of,  457-8. 

Malott,  Mr.  Joseph,  his  obituary,  i.  189. 

Manly,  Rev.  John  G.,  his  conversion,  iii.  300;  Clarendon, 
458 ;  Augusta,  iv.  42  ;  Mr.  Lord's  curate,  46  ;  his  ad- 
dress on  separation,  314;  West  Indies,  404. 

Mansell,  Mrs.,  out  of  candles,  iii.  86. 

Markham,  a  parsonage  built  in,  v.  78. 

Marmora  and  William  Young,  iii.   415. 

Marriage,  romantic,  iii.  377. 

Marsden,  Rev.  George,  President  of  Conf.,  iii.  394 ;  some 
account  of,  409. 

Marsden,  Rev.  John  S.,  short  account  of,  iv.  341 ;  his  death, 
466. 

Martin,  Rev.  Timothy,  his  first  Circuit,  iii.  12  ;  on  trial,  53  ; 
Long  Point,  58;  failing  health,  126;  death,  iv.  350. 

Marvin,  Rev.  Martin,  conversion  of,  ii.  47. 

Masson,  James,  portraiture  of,  v.  208. 

Matthews,  Abner,  short  account  of,  ii.  295  ;  he  preaches  to 
Indians,  360  ;  at  Camp-meeting,  414  ;  a  precious  time, 
iii.  23  ;  letter  from,  422  ;  reference  to,  473  ;  glimpse  of, 
iv.  371. 

Matilda,  Wm.  Losee  preaches  there,  i.  7, 1 1  ;  Henry  Boehm,  t 
232;  Henry  Pope  and  Samuel  Heck,  ii.  133;  a  class 
formed,  206  ;  missionary  meeting,  280  ;  W.,  H.,  and  A. 
(see  Cornwall),  iii.  205  ;  Waldron,  345;  parsonage  built, 
390;  Healey  and  Howard,  415;  pruning,  469;  no 
murmurs,  iv.  43  ;  both  German,  47  ;  both  lively,  125  ; 
Nankeville  serviceable  there,  260  ;  N.  and  Harmon, 
340  ;  a  supply,  368  ;  Prancis  Coleman  there,  v.  205. 


INDEX.  313 

Mattison,  Rev.  Seth,  a  shining  star,  i.  195. 

Maudsley,  Samuel  E.,  a  supply,  v.    125  ;  on  trial,  141  ;   por- 
traiture of,  142. 

Meetings  of  dissatisfied  local  preachers,  iii.  420-422. 

Melbourne,  Circuit  formed,  ii.  106;  R.  Williams,  203;  J. 
DePutron,  276  ;  Sutcliffe,  338  ;  Mr.  Pope's  letter,  388 
vitality  and  hope,  438  ;  Stinson,  488  ;  Knowlan,  iii.  50 
Wm.  Burt,  142;  supplied,  209;  Johnston,  iv.  Ill 
Selley  and  Borland,  236;  Mr.  Selley's  letter,  284 
Borland,  329  ;  Raine,  410  ;  death  of  Raine,  442  ;  Bor- 
land again,  470;  M.  McDonald,  v.  12. 

Men  who  laid  the  foundation  of  Methodism  in  Canada,  i. 
129. 

Merwin,  Rev.  Samuel,  appointed  to  Canada,  i.  83  ;  his 
obituary,  84. 

Messmore,  Rev.  Joseph,  first  notice  of,  ii.  454 ;  Thames,  iii, 
13;  Lyon's  Creek,  57,  124;  Grand  River,  150,  245 
Amherstburgh,  266  ;  Stamford,  290  ;  Niagara,  329  ;  St. 
Catharines,  380  ;  G.  River,  418  ;  letter  from,  iv.  10 
again  in  the  field,  388  ;  Waterdown,  v.  182. 

Metcalf,  Rev.  Franklin,  on  trial,  ii.  218  ;  a  beardless  boy 
&c,  249-253;  reason  why,  391  ;  recovery,  423  ;  fruit 
434  ;  marriage,  483  ;  letter  from,  484  ;  Hallowell,  iii 
33  ;  sermon,  45  ;  a  model  preacher,  76  ;  Augusta,  133, 
204  ;  assist,  editor,  256  ;  his  wife's  death,  265  ;  P. 
Elder,  298,  Del.  to  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.,  314;  Augusta 
Dist.,  344;  Niagara  Dist.,  380  ;  sup'd.,  444;  St.  Catha- 
rines, 455;  located,  iv.  3;  Conf.  of  1836,  116;  letter 
from,  333;  he  visits  the  Conference,  419;  his  death, 
v.  66. 

Methodism  in  Canada,  its  enthusiasm  and  activity,  i.  10; 
doings  of  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.,  ii.  284  ;  separate  Conf.  re- 
quested, 397  ;  again  asked,  440  ;  first  meeting  of  Can- 
ada Conference,  492  ;  Conf.  at  Saltfleot,  iii.  52 ;  at 
Hamilton,  142  ;  pleasing  news,  177  ;  Earnestown  Con. 
change  of  relations,  210;  particulars,  <fec,  213-217; 
Conf.  of  1829,  253  ;  Belleville  Conf,  276  ;  first  York 
Conf.,  309  ;  Hallowell  Conf.,  a  union  projected,  353  ; 
editorial  on,  354;  delegation  to  England,  363;  how 
14 


314  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORAEIES. 

viewed,  392-396 ;  extract  from  Eng.  Magazine, 
400;  union  ratified,  404;  opposition,  419;  happy 
[  results,  iv.  38 ;  dividing  wedge,  185 ;  shadows, 
237 ;  seeds  of  discord,  248 ;  antagonism,  270 ; 
spirit  of  the  times,  279;  disturbing  elements,  298; 
deleg»tson  to  England,  300  ;  events  there,  302  ;  the 
Canadian  side,  307;  a  special  Conf,  309-313;  union 
dissolved,  317;  comments,  318;  choosing  sides,  319; 
first  step  toward  conciliation,  432  ;  committee  appointed 
449  ;  del.  to  Eng.,  477  ;  resolutions  on,  478  ;  action  of 
Brit.  Conf.,  479  ;  meeting  of  Canada  Conference  execu- 
tive, 481 ;  the  Conf.  of  1847,  v.  1  ;  articles  of  the  re- 
constructed union,  3-6  ;  consolidation,  7 ;  consequent 
increase  of  laborers,  16;  Conf.  of  1848,  24;  another 
epoch,  169  ;  amalgamation  of  Canada  Eastern  District, 
173. 

Methodism,  Provincial,  what  divided  it,  iv.  127;  enmitv  to, 
457. 

Methodists,  Episcopal,  Jos.  Gatchel  meets  a  convocation  of 
local  preachers,  iii.  313  ;  David  Culp's  meeting,  420  ; 
another  in  Burford,  421  ;  the  Belleville  sixteen,  422 ; 
John  Bailey's  case,  423  ;  comments,  425-429  ;  re-con- 
struction, 447-450  ;  their  del.  to  Am.  Gen'l.  Conf.,  iv.  6  ; 
false  reports,  29  ;  their  episcopacy  spurious,  101 ;  poli- 
tical cry,  121;  Bishop's  statement,  134;  "Guardian" 
editor,  134  ;  Dr.  Paddock,  135  ;  judicial  trials,  136-141; 
appeal  to  General  Conference  and  its  results,  399  ; 
making  drafts,  437. 

Methodists,  Primitive,  their  first  labors  in  Canada,  297  ;  in 
Bowmanville,  iv.  485. 

Methodists,  Refonied,  secession  of,  ii.  48. 

Methodists,  union  of  (see  Methodism  in  Canada). 

Miles,  Stephen,  i.  153;  short  account  of,  iv.  118;  superan- 
nuated, v.  201. 

Miller,  Aaron  D.,  short  notice  of,  v.  75  ;  a  year's  rest,  156; 
Bath,  v.  202. 

Miller,  "Father,"  i.  234  ;  correction,  327. 

Miller,  Rev.  Gilbert,  a  supply,  iii.  267  ;  on  trial,  277 ;  work- 


INDEX.  315 

ing  hard,  296  ;  Lake  Simcoe,  334 ;  Albion,  414 ;  Rice 
and  Mud  Lake,  iv.  71;  Cold  water,  127;  Peterboro1, 
253;  Napanee,  339;  supernum'y.,  v.  201. 

Millerism,  iv.  380,  396,  410. 

Mills,  John,  introduced,  v.  106  ;  Bowmanville,  199. 

Milner,  James,  introduced,  iv.  241. 

Minor,  Timothy,  glimpse  of,  i.  215. 

Missionaries,  British  Wesleyan,  instructions  to,  ii.  275 ; 
comments,  276;  stations,  276;  misled,  287  ;  difficulties 
adjusted,  335-342  ;  District  Meeting  of  1823,  iii.  46,  88, 
139,  208.  250,  274,  305  ;  projected  shadows,  348  ;  more, 
352  ;  changes,  &c,  396,  436,  486;  v.  20,  41,  57,  80,  113, 
136,  165;  union,   211. 

Missionary  Society  formed,  ii.  492  ;  report,  496  ;  anniver- 
sary, iii.  53;  first  missionary  meeting,  167;  York  seventh 
anniversary,  368 ;  Conf.  public  missionary  meeting, 
410  ;  report,  450  ;  good  increase,  iv.  133  ;  anniversaries, 
395  ;  Chinese  Mission  proposed,  461  ;  out  of  debt,  v. 
77  ;  report  for  1853-4,  224. 

Mississippi  Mission,  Ryerson  and  Belton,  iii.  85  ;  members, 
86,  137  ;  William  H.  Williams,  208  ;  an  increase,  249 
John  Black,  273  ;  C.  Wood,  300  ;  Huntington,  346  ; 
Brock,  389  ;  two  chapels  erected,  iv.  49. 

Mississxuoi  Bay,  a  chapel  proposed,  ii.  126. 

Mitchell,  Rev.  James,  some  account  of,  i.  212;  removal,  260; 
his  obituary,  331. 

Mixed  Committees  to  be  appointed,  v.  225. 

Mockridge,  James,  brief  account  of,  iv.  291  ;  withdrew, 
321. 

Mohawk  Christians,  ii.  403. 
Mohawk  Mission  Report,  iii.  452. 
Mohawk  schools,  iii.  54. 

Money  Grant  Government,  iii.  394  ;  remarks  on,  426  ;  poli- 
tical aspect  of,  427. 

Mono,  its  first  preacher,  iv.  191  ;  a  good  year,  250  ;  ninety- 
eight  conversions  in  one  month,  v.  109. 


316  CASE,   AND    HIS   COTEMPOEAEIES. 

Montgomery,  Rev.  Hugh,  a  supply,  iv.  48 ;  in  Canada  East, 
iv.  378  ;  illness,  v.  20 ;  withdrew,  179. 

Montreal,  Martin  Ruter  sent  to,  i.  86 ;  visited  by  Joseph 
Sawyer,  121  ;  clerical  insolence,  122  ;  first  chapel,  177; 
state  of  society,  310;  without  a  preacher,  ii.  16; 
glimpses  of,  18  ;  letter  of  Mr.  DePutron,  71  ;  contribu- 
tions to  Quebec  church,  76  ;  District  Meeting,  109 ; 
first  Sunday-school,  120  ;  Am.  Meth.  progress  of,  in, 
132  ;  further  noticed,  185  ;  number  of  classes  and  mem- 
bers, 277  ;  church  dedicated,  347  ;  increase,  iii.  48 ;  R. 
Alder,  88,  140;  prosperous,  208;  John  Hick,  274; 
Wm.  Squire,  306,  349  ;  Crosscombe  and  Barry,  437  ; 
additions,  iv.  43;  missionary  meeting,  112;  Dist.  M., 
112,  141  ;  decrease,  234  ;  revival,  330  ;  a  year's  review, 
355  ;  two  new  churches,  413  ;  friction  ^  v.  228-233. 

Montreal  District,  its  stations  and  men,  v.  211. 

Moore,  William  Fitz.,  his  conversion,  ii.  46 ;  his  death,  47  ; 
a  passing  visit,  iii.  71. 

Moraviantown,  Indian  church  opened,  v.  132. 

Morden,  Thomas  E.,  a  useful  man,  v.  243. 

Morden,  William  R.,  a  candidate,  v.  243, 

Morgan,  James,  a  supply,  v.  184  ;  his  obituary,  184. 

Morpeth,  a  separate  charge,  v.  132  ;  Joseph  Hugill  there, 
189. 

Morris,  Rev.  Caleb,  i.  15  ;  obituary  of,  66. 

Morton,  Lewis,  a  glimpse  of,  v.  30. 

Morton,  William,  his  antecedents,  iv.  369. 

Muirhead,  a  local  supply,  v.  69. 

Mulkins,  Hannibal,  Long  Point,  iii.  454 ;  Yonge  Street,  iv. 
23  ;  succeeding  well,  192  ;  subsequent  career,  259. 

Muncey  Indians,  Carey's  school,  iii.  54 ;  prosperity,  63 ;  a 
request,  68  ;  confusion,  231  ;  Thomas  Hurlburt,  266  ; 
Ezra  Adams,  365,  417;  report,  452;  Quar.  Meeting, 
iv.  63  ;  letters,  71 ;  corner-stone  of  Indian  school  laid, 
v.  54. 

Murray  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  415;  letter,  466 ;  Camp- 
Meeting,  iv.  41. 


INDEX.  317 

Musician,  the  Devil's,  burning  his  fiddle,  i.  95. 

Musgrove,  Rev.  James,  introduced,  iii.  341  ;  on  trial,  364 ; 
Whitby,  387  ;  Bay  Quinte,  415  ;  his  Conf.  experience, 
443 ;  appointed  Chairman,  iv.  423  ;  courage,  476;  Secre- 
tary of  Conf.,  v.  2  ;  again  elected,  85  ;  Alderville  Indus- 
trial School,  120,  199. 

Mc. 

McAllister,  Andrew,  on  trial,  v.  89;  short  notice  of,  91 ;  ill- 
health,  118. 

McBerney,    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas,   worthy  mention  of,  v. 

248. 
McCallum,  Joseph  W.,  first  mention  of,  iv.  321  ;  Waterloo, 

v.  75. 
McCarty,  a  converted  Irishman,  i.  7  ;   in  the  Bay   country, 

11. 
McCarty's,  Mr.  John,  Case's  resting-place,  iii.    151. 
McDonnell,  Richard,  a  supply,  iv.  369. 
McCracken,  George,  some  account  of,  i.  172  ;  missed,  199  ; 

correction,  331. 
McCullough,  William,  introduction  of,  iv.    292. 
McCullough,  Wm.,  2nd,  a  glimpse  of,  iv.  475. 
McDonagh,  Wm.,  portraiture  of,  v.  120;  on  trial,  141. 
McDonald,  James,  a  local  preacher,  iii.    346. 
McDonald,  Malcolm,  introduced,  iv.  235  ;  another    glimpse, 

378. 
McDougall,  George,  his  early  history,  v.  73  ;  Bruce   Mines, 

98  ;  sends  good  news,  1 08. 
McDowell,  Henry,  short    notice  of,  iv.   473  ;  Richmond,  v. 

205. 
McDowell,  David  C,  an  error  noted,  short  sketch  of,  v.  92  ; 

Perth,  205. 
McDowell,    Robert,    his    controversy     with    Coate,  i.   21  ; 

another  glimpse  of,  iv.  256. 
McEwen,  Wm.,  received,  iv.  360  ;  U.  S.,  361. 
McFadden,  William,  his  conversion,  iii.  247  ;  his  estimate  of 


318  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORAEIES. 

Madden,  270  ;  of  R.  Jones,  272  ;  his  first  Circuit,  388  , 
Hull,  416;  letter  from,  iv.  49;  Peterboro',  339; 
Brighton,  v.  201. 

Magee,  Thomas,  a  converted  native,begins  to  travel,  iii.  301; 
journal  of,  370  ;  visits  Credit  Mission,  iv.  68,  161. 

McGee,  Thomas,  obit,  of,  ii.  101. 

McGill,  Vm.,  his  early  history,  v.  12  ;  ord.,  85  ;  Aylmer, 
205. 

Mcllmoils,  Squire,  i.  157. 

Mclntyre,  John,  on  trial,  iv.  1  ;  account  of  him  omitted  (see 
errata). 

McKendree,  Bishop,  mention  of,  i.  196;  travelling,  229; 
meets  Asbury,  238 ;  2nd  Gen'l.  Conf.,  ii.  29 ;  at 
Asbury's  funeral,  30. 

McLean,  Hugh,  i.  20. 

McMullen,  Rev.  Daniel,  conv.  of,  iii.  18  ;  left  his  Circuit, 
19  ;  on  trial,  53  ;  success,  59  ;  London  and  Long  Point, 
127  ;  in  full  connexion,  144  ;  located,  145  ;  YoDge 
Street,  238  ;  Cavan,  268  ;  Cobourg  and  Belleville,  295; 
Hallowell,  340;  Rice  Lake,  365,  387,  417  ;  super'd., 
iv.  151. 

McMullen,  Rev.  Thomas,  a  supply,  381;  Dumfries,  414 ; 
Whitby,  456;  Metcalf,  v.  104;  extract  from  journal, 
105. 

MaNabb,  Rev.  Alex.,  short  notice  of,  iii.  330  ;  a  supply,  341; 
on  trial,  364;  Hallowell,  386;  Prescott,  417;  super- 
numerary, 443  ;  letter  from,  iv.  8  ;  Chairman  and  Book 
Steward,  358  ;  Secretary  of  Conference,  382  ;  D.D.  con- 
ferred, v.  40  ;  withdrew,  68. 

N. 
Nankeville,  Benjamin,  iii.  458  ;  his  work,   iv.  213  ;  useful- 
ness, 260. 

Napanee,  Allison  and  Miller,  its  first  pastors,  iv.  332 ;  a  re- 
vival, v.  78. 
Nasson,  Peter,  a  faithful  man,  iii.  159. 

Keal,  Colonel,  forms  a  class  at  Niagara,  i.  7 ;  his  early  life 
and  old  age,  88-90. 


INDEX.  319 

Necaunahby,  happy  death  of,  iv.  73. 

Neelands,  John,  a  supply,  iv.  191. 

Nellis,  Samuel  S.,  his  early  history,  v.  13  :  President  of  Vic. 
Coll.,  68. 

Nelson  Township,  when  named,  i.  1 1 1  ;  Circuit,  how  formed, 

iii.  381 ;  J.  S.  Atwood,  414  ;  Norris  and  "Warner,  455 ; 

letter,  462;   details,  iv.^25;  a   good  work,  250;  well 

manned,  v.  123. 
Newbury,  Arkle  S.,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.  159  ;  on  trial,  186  ; 

withdrew,  294. 

New  England  schools,  i.  19. 

Newlove,  Rev.  George,  Gananoque,  iii.  352 ;  his  death, 
353. 

Newmarket  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  238 ;  R.  Corson  and  T. 
Fawcett,  455  ;  letter  from  R.  Corson,  462  ;  Camp-meet- 
ing, iv.  24. 

New  Ireland,  its  first  missionary,  iv.  107  ;  its  second,  144. 

New  York  Conference  of  1805,  i.  17. 

Niagara,  first  class  formed,  i.  7;  Circuit  formed,  14;  Gershom 
Pearce,  19  ;  extent  of,  110;  increase  of  members,  ii"  10; 
a  new  preacher,  40:  increase,  42  ;  Ferguson  and  Byam, 
130  ;  the  Wolf,  162  ;  again  noticed,  211  ;  increase  small, 
224  ;  divided,  309  ;  Isaac  Puffer  and  Tackabury,  361  ; 
church  opened,  416  ;  Adams  and  Ryerson,  453  ;  Dem- 
orest,  iii.  7,  56  ;  three  men,  147  ;  Circuit  divided,  241; 
further  changes,  290 ;  Messmore  and  Wilson,  380. 

Niagara  District,  stations  for  1824,  iii.  4;  Thomas  Madden, 
P.  Elder,  54,  123;  new  P.  Elder,  147;  John  Ryerson, 
241,  264;  large  increase,  290  ;  James  Richardson,  P. 
E.,  326 ;  F.  Metcalf,  P.  E.,  380 ;  its  stations,  454  ;  its 
staff  and  Chairman,  iv.  7  ;  dismembered,  191. 

Northrup,  Rev.  Charles,  short  notice  of,  ii.  188  ;  success, 
244. 

Norris,  Rev.  James,  his  nativity,  &c,  iii.  143  ;  a  change, 
189  ;  Cobourg,  235  ;  Yonge  Street,  268,  296  ;  Whitby, 
338,  387  ;  Sidney,  415  ;  letter  from,  iv.  25  ;  his  address 
on  leaving  the  Conf.,  314. 

Norris,  Rev.  Samuel,  portraiture  of,  ii.  269. 


320  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORAEIES. 

Norton,  William,  portraiture  of,  v.  246. 
Norway  House,  arrival  of  missionaries,  v.  217. 
Norwood  Circuit,  its  change  of  name,  and  why,  iv.  447. 
Nova  Scotia,  Thomas  Whitehead,  missionary  in,  i,  132. 

O. 

Oakville,  its  first  Methodist  church,  iv.  26. 

Odelltown  church  built,  ii.  486  ;  William  Burt  there,  iii. 

90,  209  ;  Knowlan,  308  ;  Booth,  438 ;  J.  Hick,  487 ; 

probabilities,  iv.  109. 

Ogdensbnrg,  reminiscences,  i.  12. 

O'Loane,  James,  Esq.,  death  of,  v.  221. 

Onions,  forgetting  to  pray  for,  ii.  168. 

Oozhushkah  and  Mekagase,  remarkable  account  of,  iv.  75. 

Organization  of  Can.  Meth.  Episcopal  Church,  iii.  213  ;  its 
union  with  the  British  Wesleyans,  404  ;  another  M.  E. 
Church  constructed,  and  how,  447. 

Orton,  Henry,  M.  D.,  his  liberality,  iv.  160. 

Osborne,  John  O,  short  notice  of,  iv.  472 ;  his  ord.,  v.  85. 

Osgoode,  beginnings,  iii.  389  ;  a  revival,  iv.  343 ;  a  supply, 
346 ;  sixty  converted,  v.  20. 

Oswegotchie,  first  appointment  to,  i.  12  j  length  of,  22 ; 
notice  of,  42;  extent  of,  110;  Wm.  Case,  126;  Bap- 
tismal register,  149,  156  ;  divided,  158. 

Ottawa  Circuit  formed,  i.  19 ;  in  1802,  22 ;  D.  Pickett,  26  ; 
extent  of,  109  ;  its  scenery,  ii.  14  ;  a  two  weeks'  Circuit, 
17;  the  military  preacher,  65;  sifting,  132;  humilia- 
tion, 379 ;  a  mistake  rectified,  478 ;  G.  Bissell,  iii.  41 ; 
Brit.  Wes.  send  H.  Pope,  92  ;  increase,  206  ;  C.  E. 
Allison,  247,  272  ;  Poole  and  L.  S.  Church,  299  ;  Poole 
and  Warner,  346  ;  Black,  416  ;  revival,  iv.  44. 

Ottawa  District,  how  formed,  iv.  198  ;  R.  Jones,  Chairman 
248.     See  Bytown  Dist.  ' 

Owen,  Jesse,  a  supply,  iii.  385. 

Owen  Sound  District,  C.  Vandusen  its  first  Chairman  v. 
152  ;  its  stations  and  men,  193. 


INDEX.  321 

Oxford,  a  new  Circuit,  iii.  385  ;  R.  Phelps,  413,  454 ;  fm. 

Coleman,  iv.  337. 
Oxford  House  Mission,  v.  218. 

P. 

Paddock,  Rev.  Dr.,  graphic  account  of  his  journey  to  his 
first  Circuit,  ii.  143. 

Paine,  Rev.  Edward,  a  short  account  of,  ii.  289,  290. 

Palatines,  the,  i.  11. 

Parent,  Amand,  a  glimpse  of,  iv.  416. 

Parker,  John,  short  account  of,  ii.  398  ;  subsequent  career, 
472  ;  Genesee  Conference,  iii.  3. 

Parker,  Wm.  R.,  a  graduate,  v.  257. 

Pattie,  Elias,  some  account  of,  i.  147  ;  Cornwall,  178  ;  Au- 
gusta, 224  ;  further  account  of,  245  ;  located,  246  ;  ef- 
fort to  restore,  ii.  96,  137. 

Patrick,  William,  his  conversion,  ii.  166  ;  short  reference  to, 
iii.  194;  Yonge  Street,  238;  on  trial,  253;  L.  Point, 
265  ;  Belleville,  295  ;  Whitby,  338  ;  Perth,  389,  416  ; 
located,  iv.  48. 

Pattyson,  William  M.,  introduction  of,  iv.  473. 

Paul,  John,  begins  to  travel,  iii.  301. 

Peacock,  Thomas,  his  early  history,  v.  51. 

Peake,  Edwin,  a  supply,  v.  129  ;  on  trial,  141. 

Peale,  James  G.,  a  good  soldier,  ii.  66  ;  his  intended  bride, 
87  ;  on  trial,  140  ;  Belleville,  171  ;  sermon  on  baptism, 
172  ;  Cornwall,  243  ;  Yonge  Street,  311  ;  his  heroism, 
383;  his  death,  421. 

Pearce,  Rev.  Gershom,  at  Niagara,  i.  19  ;  history  of,  133  ; 
success  on  Dunham  Circuit,  150;  obituary,  327. 

Pearson,  Thomas  D.,  a  supply,  v.  128 ;  on  trial,  141. 

Peck,  Rev.  Dr.  Geo.,  his  opinion  about  the  Case  family,  i.  2  ; 
account  of  Deleware  Circuit,  55  ;  testimony  concerning 
Jewell,  57  ;  testimony  concerning  VanNest,  80  ;  testi- 
mony concerning  Ohandly  Lambert,  15H  ;  on  organiza- 
tion of  the  Genesee  Conference,  193  ;  on  doings  of  the 
General  Conference,  196  ;  his  remembrances  of  Case, 
14* 


322  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

228  ;  quotations  from  "  Early  Methodism,"  242,  314 ; 
pn  Israel  Chamberlayne,  ii.  13;  on  Jones  and  Dens- 
more,  53  ;  Wyatt  Chamberlayne,  55  ;  Gideon  Lanning, 
99  ;  record  of  a  sad  event,  289  ;  Susquehanna  Dist., 
iii.  3. 
Peck,  Rev.  Jesse  T.,  visit  to  the  Canada  Conference,  iv.  87. 

Pembroke,  twenty  sheep  gathered  in,  iv.  45  ;  mission  begun, 

57. 
Perdue,  Henry  H.,  a  supply,  v.  27. 

Perth,  introduction  of  Methodism  into,  ii.  382  ;  Philander 
Smith  and  Metcalf,  433 ;  Sol.  Waldron,  iii.  35  ;  Ryer- 
son  and  Belton,  85  ;  W.  H.  "Williams,  137  ;  R.  Jones, 
207  ;  Black,  249  ;  A.  Adams,  273 ;  Carroll,  347  ;  Pat- 
rick, 389,  416  ;  expanded,  iv.  48  ;  Harmon  and  Tupper, 
125;  James  Currie,  340;  a  supply  from,  345,  346; 
David  C.  McDowell,  v.  205. 

Perry,  Ebenezer,  Hon.,  his  family  connections,  i.  34. 

Perry,  Rev.  Robert,  on  trial,  i.  18  :  Ottawa,  19  ;  portraiture, 
&c,  i.  34 ;  Niagara,  131 ;  his  comments  on  a  sermon  of 
Wm.  Snow,  157  ;  Quar.  M.,  179  ;  Long  Point,  225  ; 
locates,  247 ;  supplementary,  326  ;  secession  of,  ii.  48 ; 
death,  50. 

Peterboro'  mentioned,  iii.  344 ;  preaching  in  a  ball  room, 
432  ;  first  church  built,  iv.  362  ;  Wm.  H.  Poole  there, 
v.  199. 

Peterson,  Mr.  Jacob,  his  narrative  of  Dunham's  fidelity,  38- 
40. 

Pettis,  Charles,  a  supply,  iii.  337. 

Phelps,  Rev.  Richard,  seeking  God,  iii.  81 ;  Cobourg  and 
Grape  Island,  107  ;  abundant  in  labor,  202  ;  on  trial, 
210;  Westminster,  244;  Thames,  266;  saddlebags  ex- 
perience, 291 ;  conversion  of  Indians,  328 ;  Grand 
River  Mission,  330;  graphic  account  from,  333;  still 
there,  365;  death  of  Brant,  379;  Oxford,  413,  454; 
Grimsby,  iv.  122  ;  return  from  the  States,  423  ;  Bel- 
mont, v.  187. 

Phillips,  Samuel  G.,  introduction  of,  v.  178. 


INDEX.  323 

Philip,  Samuel  C,  his  local  influence,  iv.  158;  a  supply, 
192;  Hamilton,  337;  his  energy,  v.  132;  Brampton! 
182. 

Philp  William,  a  local  helper,  iv.  158;  Sidney,  339  ; 
Waterloo,  v.  202. 

Philo,  Geo.  Washington,  a  supply,  iv.  54 ;  letter  from,  55. 

Pickett,  Rev.  Daniel,  a  new  laborer  for  Canada,  i.  15  ;  Yonge 
St.,  19  ;  history  of,  26  ;  colleague  of  Bangs,  32  ;  supple- 
mentary account  of,  325  ;  in  opposition,  iii.  447. 

Picton,  a  great  revival,  iii.  31  ;  Conference  held  in,  355  ; 
Conference  of  1842  held  there,  iv.  356. 

Pierce,  Rev.  Thomas  C,  his  history,  ii.  105. 

Pinch,  Richard,  how  he  came  to  travel,  v.  209. 

Pioneers  in  Virginia,  &c,  i.  3 ;  privations  of,  4 ;  local 
preachers  and  others  among  them,  6. 

Plan  for  local  preachers  first  made  in  Canada,  iii.  270. 

Play  fair,  Andrew  W.,  a  supply,  iii.  137;  his  subsequent 
career  and  death,  138. 

Playfair,  Colonel,  a  funeral  sarmon  by,  ii.  435. 

Playter,  Rev.  Geo.  F.,  his  "  Hist,  of  Methodism  "  referred 
to,  i.  7  ;  quoted  from,  1 3  ;  his  account  of  Samuel  Coate, 
20  ;  of  Daniel  Pickett,  26  ;  Coate  again,  210  ;  Ryan's 
District,  226  ;  Reeder's  usefulness,  ii,  15  ;  about  Wm. 
Losee,  50  ;  his  account  of  the  Elizabethtown  Confer- 
ence, 86  ;  the  Hay  Bay  disaster,  246  ;  the  Gen'l.  Con- 
ference of  1820,  284 ;  statistics,  iii.  209. 

Playter,  Rev.  Geo.  F,  a  supply,  iii.  416  ;  unappreciated,  iv. 
54 ;  his  thirty-five  reasons,  397  ;  appointed  Editor, 
424 ;  at  Napanee,  v.  202. 

Plumley,  Daniel,  short  account  of,  ii.  70. 

Pollard,  William,  some  account  of,  366-7  ;  Quebec,  v.  212. 

Poole,  Rev.  George,  Bay  Quinte  Circuit,  iii.  101  ;  on  trial, 
143;  Richmond,  207;  Bytown,  248,  274;  Ottawa, 
299,  346;  Bay  Quinte,  386;  Murray,  415;  letter 
from,  434 ;  Hallowell,  ir.  34 ;  a  baptism,  258  ;  his 
death,  v.  179. 


324  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Poole,  Rev.  JaCob,  ii.  329 ;  conjectures,  377  ;  Yonge,  St., 
417 ;  on  trial,  440;  finds  a  wife,  467;  Hallowell,  iii. 
33  ;  full  membership,  53  ;  Augusta,  78  ;  Rideau,  137  ; 
Crosby,  204 ;  Cornwall,  247  ;  Albion,  296. 

Pope,  Rev.  Henry,  references  to,  ii.  74-77 ;  further  account 
of,  78  ;  interviewed  by  Bishop  George  and  Case,  84 ; 
letter  to  the  author,  206  ;  meets  Elder  Ryan,  211  ;  his 
marriage,  214;  Kingston  Conference,  270;  farewell 
sermons,  282 ;  his  person,  341 ;  Montreal,  iii.  48 ; 
Ottawa,  92  ;  P.  E.  I.  and  Nova  Scotia,  93  ;  an  octo- 
genarian, 93. 

Pope,  Rev.  Richard,  safe  arrival,  ii.  74 ;  place  of  labor,  75  • 
promising,  77  ;  his  obituary,  79  ;  letter  to  Miss'y.  Com. 
203 ;    Fort   Wellington,    338  ;    success,  iii.  48  ;  Stan- 
stead,  89  ;  revival,  140  ;  Shefford,  251 ;  his  death,  307  • 
conversion  of  Jason  Lee,  398. 

Port  Hope,  first  Methodist  sermon  in,  iii.  32  ;  first  chapel 
dedicated,  iv.  38 ;  first  resident  Meth.  minister,  249. 

Port  Stanley,  church  opening,  v.  132. 

Praying  compact,  the,  i.  120. 

Prescott,  subtracted  from  Augusta,  iii.  388 ;  A.  McNab, 
417 ;  rising,  iv.  45. 

Presiding  Elders,  changes  of  appointments  by,  i.  144. 

Preston,  James,  portraiture  of,  v.  190;  retires,  118. 

Price,  "William,  detained,  iii.  459  ;  a  second  glimpse  of,  iv. 
129  ;  his  portraiture,  281  ;  on  trial,  288 ;  St.  Thomas, 
v.  187. 

Primitive  Methodists,  their  first  labors  in  Canada,  iii.  297. 

Prindle,  Rev.  Andrew,  his  birth,  education,  and  conversion, 
i.  133;  Augusta,  ii.  12;  St.  Lawrence,  138;  labors  in 
U.  S.,  189;  Conference  work,  216;  Dumfries,  292; 
transferred,  iii.  211  ;  a  vacancy  filled,  243  ;  superannu- 
ated, 311;  his  death,  313;  the  compeer  of  Case,  v. 
240. 

Privileges,  Committee  of,  appointed,  iv.  153 ;  another,  247. 

Progress  from  1790  to  1805,  i.  16  ;  at  the  close  of  1823,  ii. 

494 ;  numbers  at  the  time  of  the  union,  iii.  396  ;  on 


INDEX.  325 

the    eve  of  re-union  in  1847,  iv.  489  ;  in  1855  Case's 
jubilee  year  v   239, 

Proton  Mission,  successor,  v.  108  ;  a  prosperous  tide,  134. 

Providential  escape  roin  death,  i.  40 ;  providential  deliver- 
ance, 78  ;  from  wicked  men,  97 ;  in  a  storm  on  the  At- 
lantic, ii.  112, 

Puffer,  Rev.  Isaac,  some  characteristics  of,  i.  195  ;  ord. 
deacon,  238;  Augusta,  ii.  134;  obituary,  134;  his 
trust  in  God,  135;  Bay  Quinte,  172;  Niagara,  309; 
second  year,  361 ;  visit  to  old  fields,  iv.  458. 

Pugh,  John  D.,  a  supply,  v.  129  ;  Hinchinbrook,  203. 

Q. 

Quakers,  the,  and  Alvin  Torry,  ii.  220-224. 

Quaaterly  Meetings  of  the  olden  time,  i.  226  ;  in  a  smug- 
gler's house,  279  ;  at  St.  Davids,  307  ;  Elizabethtown, 
ii.  137  ;  revival  and  thunderstorm,  147  ;  the  first  in 
new  settlements  on  York  Circuit,  366  ;  Henry  Ryan's 
373  ;  Perth,  435  ;  Rideau,  484  ;  York,  iii.  6  ;  Credit 
Indians,  170  ;  Twenty  Mile  Creek,  326  ;  Canboro',  328. 

Quebec,  first  Meth.  sermon  in,  in  1780,  i.  6  ;  attempt  to  in- 
troduce Methodism  into,  83  ;  Dr.  Bangs  appointed  to, 
135  ;  Geo.  McCracken,  172  ;  how  supplied  during  the 
war,  282  ;  John  B.  Strong,  310  ;  a  lot  bought  on  St. 
Ann  Street,  312  ;  first  chapel,  313  ;  Richard  Williams' 
account  of,  ii.  23  ;  dropped  from  the  Aerican  Minutes, 
37  ;  opening  of  new  church,  76  ;  letter  of  R.  Williams, 
76  ;  increase,  205  ;  further  increase,  iii.  52  ;  no  particu- 
lars, 88,  140;  R.  Rope,  208;  Wm.  Squire,  250,  275; 
Lang,  307  ;  death  of  Mr.  Pope,  307  ;  three  hundred 
conversionss,  349  ;  Hick,  396;  great  fires,  411  ;  Hick 
and  Tomkins,  437  ;  revival,  494. 

Quebec  District,  its  stations  and  men,  v.  212. 

R. 
Raine,  Rev.  John,  short  account  of,  iv.  109  ;  his  death,  442  ; 


326  CASE,    AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Rattray,  Rev.  Tnomas,  a  local  helper,  iii.  330 ;  some  traits 
of,  iv.  448. 

Rebellion  in  Canada,  some  account  of,  iv.  176. 

Redner,  Peter,  conversion  of,  ii.  139. 

Reed,  Dr.  Fitch,  his  account  of  Elijah  "Woolsey's  death,  i. 
46 ;  his  account  of  Wm.  Ross,  i.  277  ;  account  of  a 
Quar.  Meeting,  279  ;  of  a  battle,  306 ;  his  opinion  of 
Case,  ii.  132  ;  Dunham  Circuit,  356  ;  reminiscences  of 
ciflAHoifHenry  Ryan,  313;  York,  315  ;  letter  to  Meth.  Mag., 
*  ""  K  Y.,  336;  report,  365;  report  to  U.  S.,  416;  P. 
Elder,  440. 

Reeder,  Nathaniel,  Dr.  Peck's  estimate  of,  i.  315 ;  heavenly- 
minded,  ii.  14;  one  hundred  souls,  45  ;  specimen'of  his 
sermons,  47;  Cornwall,  179;  his  history,  180;  death, 
183. 

Reid,  Henry,  a  supply,  v.  33  ;  St.  Vincent,  51 ;  worked  up, 
70  ;  his  exceptional  case,  85  ;  Peel,  190. 

Religious  state  of  Canada  in  1805,  i.  10 ;  value  of  religion  t6 
new  settlers,  4. 
*  Representatives,  lay  and  clerical,  meet  at  Kingston,  v.  221 ; 
their  doings,  222-228. 

Reproof,  a  faithful,  i.  236. 

Republic,  the  American,  its  age  in  1803,  i.  3. 

Revival  Conference,  the,  ii.  86. 

Reynolds,  Rev.  John,  a  native  Canadian,  i.  158  ;  his  first 
charge,  159 ;  ord.  deacon,  198 ;  Smith's  Creek,  225 ; 
Augusta,  256  ;  located,  262  ;  his  after-course,  263  ;  re- 
com.  to  Annual  Conf.,  ii.  324  ;  defends  the  right,  iii. 
106;  his  opinion  on  Dist.  Conferences,  408;  his  letter 
to  the  "  Christian  Guardian,"  432  ;  in  opposition,  450. 

Reynolds,  Rev.  Joseph,  his  conversion,  iii.  415  ;  called  to 
work,  iv.  257. 

Rhodes,  Rev.  John,  his  early  life,  i.  252  ;  ord.  Elder,  ii.  1  ; 

Bay  Quinte,  48  ;  going  south,  93 ;  his  death,  94 ;  his 

last  visit  to  Canada,  416. 
Rice  Lake,  a  new  Circuit,  iii.  74  ;  its  extent,  75  ;  R.  Bam- 

ford,  107;  Cavan  substituted  for,  193;  James  Evans, 


INDEX.  327 

296;  McMullen,  365,  387;    report,  451;   letter  from 
Gilbert  Miller,  iv.  62. 

Bice,  Luther  O.,  introduced,  iv.  321  ;  on  trial,  335  ;  Cooks- 
town,  v.  132. 

Rice,  Samuel  D.,  his  early  history,  v.  10;  Muncey,  54; 
Kingston,  68;  College  endowment,  130;  Secretary  of 
Conf.,  238  ;  Governor  of  Vic.  Coll.,  256. 

Richardson,  Geo.  T.,  introduced,  v.  178  ;  his  early  life,  210. 

Richardson,  James,  his  conversion,  ii.  419  ;  York,  iii.  17  ; 
on  trial,  53  ;  York,  60  ;  Fort  George  and  Queenston, 
124  ;  in  full  con.,  143  ;  Credit,  201  ;  Secretary  of  Conf, 
210;  Niagara,  243;  Sec.  of  Conf.  again,  253;  King- 
ston, 299 ;  York  Couference,  309  ;  P.  Elder,  326-328  ; 
Editor,  380  ;  his  views  on  the  union,  393 ;  valedictory, 
418  ;  Sec.  of  Conf,  439  ;  elected  Editor,  444  ;  first  to 
use  the  term  Chairman,  459  ;  letter  from,  463  ;  almost 
located,  iv.  3  ;  Toronto  Dist.,  21  ;  his  work,  27  ;  U.  S., 
116  ;  Metk.  Epis.  Church  of  Canada,  117. 

Richardson,  William,  a  supply,  v.  97  ;  on  trial,  117. 

Richey,  Rev.  Matthew,  short  account  of,  iv.  107  ;  Principal 
II.  C.  Academy,  124  ;  contrasts,  251  ;  visit  to  Europe, 
300  ;  his  defence  of  Powell,  397  ;  acting  President  of 
Conference,  v.  8  ;  D.D.  conferred,  28 ;  Hamilton  Con- 
ference, 46  ;  Brockville  Conference,  61. 

Richmond  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  207  ;  large  increase,  274  ; 
C.  Wood,  346;  Wm.  H.  Williams,  389,  416;  revival, 
469  ;  prospects  poor,  iv.  44 ;  nothing  remarkable,  50  ; 
a  supply,  345  ;  times  of  revival,  v.  17  ;  large  accessions, 
134. 

Richmond  St.  Society,  Toronto,  a  prolific  hive,  v.  176. 
Rideau    Circuit,    how    formed,    ii.    333 ;    its    extent,    424 ; 
Healey's   journal,  -478 ;    old  landmarks,  &c,    482 ;  D. 
Wright,  iii.    37  ;  Earr,   84  ;  Madden,    249  ;  Sol.    Wal- 
dron,  273  ;  Healey,   299  ;  Allison,   347  ;  A.  Hurlburt, 
389;  a  great  revival,  391  ;  Shaler,  416. 
Rideau  District,  formation  of,  iii.  269. 
Roberts,  Rev.  Robert  R.,  elected  Bishop,  ii.  31. 
Robertson,  David,  portraiture  of,  v.  92. 


328  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Eobinson,  Rev.  John,  sent  to  Canada,  i.  15  ;  P.  Elder,  16  ; 

his  history,  54  ;  his  death,  56. 
Robinson,  Reuben,  a  supply,  iv.  363. 
Robinson,  Robert,  notice  of,  iv.  446  ;  good  news,  v.  108. 
Robson,  Thomas,  a  successful  laborer,  v.  241. 
Roise,  Evan,  a  shouting  Methodist,  i.  231. 
Rolph,  Dr.,  a  leading  Reformer,  i.  184. 
Rose,  Alexander,  Esq.,  his  adventures,  i.  129. 
Rose,    Daniel,   a  local   preacher,   iii.   346 ;    his  subsequent 

career,  429. 

Rose,  Mr.  John,  a  useful  class-leader,  i.  130. 

Rose,  Rev.  Samuel,  short  account  of,  iii.  332  ;  Albion,  381  ; 

Westminster,  413,  454;  Muncey  Indian  Institute,  v. 

68  ;  Chairman  London  Dist.,  99,  187. 
Ross,  Thomas,  a  supply,  v.  15. 
Ross,  "William,  his  early  life,  i.  277  ;  his  death,  280  ;  brief 

notice  of,  ii.  258 ;  another  call,  268. 
Rossville  Mission,  some  account  of,  v.  217. 
Roy,  James,  M.A.,  his  portraiture,  v.  207. 

Ryan,  Rev.  Henry,  appointed  to  Bay  Quinte,  i.  19 ;  his  na- 
tionality and  history,  23  ;  Heading's  opinion  of  him, 
25  ;  incidents  of  his  preaching,  113;  E.  Elder,  225; 
his  extensive  travels,  226  ;  in  charge  of  both  Districts, 
284  ;  his  labors  and  wit,  286  ;  holds  three  Conferences, 
288  ;  faring  well,  ii.  2  ;  a  delegate  to  the  Gen'l.  Conf., 
2 ;  his  impetuosity,  36  ;  on  U.  C.  Dist.,  38  ;  Gid.  Lan- 
ning's  testimony,  127;  his  zenith,  145;  Conference 
work,  216;  still  successful,  218;  his  Dist.  in  1821, 
372 ;  very  effective,  373  ;  ambitious,  465 ;  jealousy, 
468  ;  superseded,  iii.  5,  24 ;  old  Boanerges,  72 ;  excite- 
ment produced,  80  ;  sowing  discord,  105  ;  debate,  &c, 
145-7;  Case's  caution,  156;  sowing  seed,  190,  193;  at 
the  Conference  of  1828,  213;  Ryanites,  250;  sends 
two  letters  to  Conference,  253. 

Ryerson,  Colonel,  his  home  at  Long  Point,  ii.  306. 
Ryerson,  Rev.  Egerton,  his  account  of  Daniel  Freeman,  i. 
221 ;  his  memoir  of  Ninian  Holmes,  264;  his  own  con- 


INDEX.  329 

version,  306  ;  thrust  out,  iii.  7  ;  sketch  of,  9  ;  on  trial, 
53  ;  York,  60  ;  champion  of  truth,  87  ;  Credit  Indians, 
110;  travelling  north,  121;  in  full  connexion,  143; 
the  Clergy  Keserve  controversy,  192 ;  editor,  256 ; 
representative  to  Eng.  Conf.,  362  :  sails  for  England, 
393;  editor,  412,  444;  Toronto  '  City,  455;  U.  C. 
Academy,  iv.  31  ;  his  return  from  England,  146  ;  Sec. 
of  Conf.,  184  ;  editor,  185  ;  to  visit  England,  247  ;  again 
Sec.  of  Conf.,  287  ;  England  again,  300  ;  inaugural  ad- 
dress, 351  ;  his  defence  of  Sir  Charles  Metcalf,  397  ; 
Conf.  resolution  on,  419;  Sup't.  of  Education,  431  ;  letter 
from  Europe,  459  ;  del.  to  Brit.  Conf.,  v.  69  ;  date  of 
appointment  as  Chief  Sup't.  of  Schools,  77. 

Ryerson,  Rev.  George,  on  trial,  iii.  210  ;  short  account  of, 
211;  Credit  Mission,  240,  269;  Grand  River,  294; 
visiting  England,  294 ;  his  subsequent  career,  294. 

Ryerson,  Rev.  Edwy  M.,  begins  to  be  useful,  iii.  265  ;  a 
glimpse,  301  ;  on  trial,  364  ;  Ancaster,  381  ;  Stamford, 
413;  St.  Catharines,  454;  illness,  iv.  192. 

Ryerson,  Rev.  John,  a  supply,  ii.  307  ;  short  account  of,  350 
Ancaster,  362  ;  Niagara,  416  ;  labor  and  love,  iii.  34 
Bay  Quinte,  69  ;  Perth,  83  ;  a  pleasant  evening,  86 
married,  124;  R  Elder,  147;  del.  to  Gen'l.  Confer- 
ence, 170  ;  Niagara  Dist.,  241,  264  ;  Metropolitan,  332; 
Bay  Quinte,  380;  letter  from,  482  ;  his  Dist.,  iv.  30; 
Pres.  of  Conf.,  382  ;  extensive  travels,  395  ;  delegate  to 
England,  478  ;  to  English  Conference,  v.  50  ;  Co-Dele- 
gate, 67,  77  ;  visit  to  the  North  "West,  iii  ;  exploring, 
214  ;  visit  to  England  and  return  to  Canada,  218. 

Ryerson,  Joseph  E.,  a  supply,  iv.  425;  desisted,  v.  14. 

Ryerson,  Rev.  William,  short  account  of,  ii.  440 ;  laid  aside, 
iii.  7;  Stamford,  10;  in  full  con.,  53;  a  station,  55; 
York,  108;  del.  to  Gen'l  Conf.,  170;  return  home — 
good  news,  177;  counselling  Flummerfelt,  197;  P. 
Elder,  218,  266  ;  unusual  activity,  295  ;  del.  to  Gen'l. 
Conf.,  314;  letter  from,  338;  Brockville,  380,  388; 
Kingston,  415;  letter  from,  iv.  7;  his  sarcasm,  242; 
contrasts,  251;  deputation  to  England,  300  ;  President, 
332;  again  President,  iv.  1. 

Ryckman,  Edward  B.,  a  College  tutor,  v.  256. 


330  CASE,  AND    HIS   COTEMPORARIES. 

Rundle,  William  W.,  on  trial,  ii.  140  ;  Yonge  Street,  168 ; 
Long  Point  224  ;  St.  Lawrence,  301. 

Russ,  Amos  E.,  portraiture  of,  v.  244. 

Ruter,  Rev.  Dr.  Martin,  a  good  man,  i.  16  ;  obituary  of,  85 ; 
his  domestic  character,  88. 

S. 

Sabin,  Benjamin,  short  account  of,  ii.  70 ;  further  account  of, 
393. 

Sacket's  Harbor,  battle  of,  i.  316. 

Salary  of  ministers,  resolutions  on,  v.  223. 

Sallows,  Edward,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.  214 ;  Sydenham,  v.  33; 
Collingwood,  198. 

Salt,  Allan,  on  trial,  v.  141 ;  portraiture  of,  143  ;  H.  B.  T., 
164  ;  some  remarks,  215,  236. 

Saltfleet  Conference  of  1825,  iii.  52 ;  a  boisterous  time,  82. 

Samson,  Rev.  Joseph,  some  account  of,  i.   173;  P.  Elder, 
216  ;  ord.  by  Asbury,  228. 
'Sanders,  Rev.  Joseph  L.,  a  supply,  186;  his  obituary,  187. 

Sanderson,  Rev.  George  R.,  a  student,  iv.  124;  his  first  Cir- 
cuit, 158  ;  contrasts,  281  ;  Editor  of  "  Christian  Guar- 
dian," 476  ;  Secretary  of  Conf.,  v.  32  ;  again  Secretary, 
115;  Book  Steward,  170. 

Sanderson,  Rev.  John,  received,  iv.  295 ;  some  account  of, 
297. 

Sanderson,  Rev.  Joseph  E.,  his  early  piety,  v.  145  ;  Bramp- 
ton, 182. 

Sanderson,  Rev.  William,  portraiture  of,  v.  91. 

Sarnia,  a  sad  state,  iv.  209,  John  G.  Laird  there,  v.  187. 

Saugeen,  John  Benham  there,  iii.  366  ;  his  journal,  367  ; 
Thomas  Hurlburt,  417;  report,  453;  David  Sawyer's 
letter,  iv.  73  ;  a  supply,  175  ;  greatly  quickened,  v.  78. 

Saul,  Mr.,  a  supply,  iv.  450. 

Savage,  John  Wesley,  his  portraiture,  v.  188  ;  his  father, 
210. 

Savage,  William,  his  antecedents,  &c,  v.  189. 


INDEX.  331 

Sawyer,  Chief  Joseph,  embraces  Christianity,  iii.  21 ;  ex- 
horting, 303. 

Sawyer,  David,  letter  from,  iii.  262 ;  begins  to  labor  and 
travel,  302  ;  journal  of,  370  ;  his  experience,  iv.  63  ; 
letter  from,  73  ;  on  trial,  v.  87. 

Sawyer,  Rev.  Joseph,  a  new  man  for  Canada,  i.  15,  16  ;  P. 

Elder,  119;  his  early  life,  119;  portraiture  of,  124;  an 

accident,  125;  locates,  198;  a  local  helper,  ii.  379;  he 

visits  the  Conference,  iv.  420. 
Scales,  "William,  short  account  of,  v.  177 ;  more,  210. 
Scarritt,  Josiah  A.,  on  trial,  ii.  104. 
Scotch  woman,  considerate  conduct  of  a,  ii.  43. 
Scott,  James,  conversion  of,  v.  15. 
Scott,  Rev.  Jonathan,  from  England,  iii.  458  ;  L.  Simcoe,  iv. 

70  ;  letter  from,   86  ;  editor  of  "  Christian  Guardian," 

280 ;  estimate  of,    424  ;  Secretary  of  Conference,  444  ; 

superannuated,  v.  182. 
Scott,  Rev.  William,  from  England,  iv.    154  ;  his  address, 

314  ;  letter  from,  325  ;  St.  Clair,  467  ;  strong  affinity, 

487;  Canada  East,  v.  38;  Montreal,  211. 
Scott,  William  L.,  a  fatherless  boy,  v.  248. 
Scugog  Indians,  their  steadfastness,  iii.   113;  how  supplied, 

236. 
Scull,  Rev.  Joseph,  some  account   of,  i.    1 74 ;  return  to  IT. 

States,  260. 
Seagar,  Rev.  Aurora,  a  new  name,  ii.  218  ;  his  early  life,  &c, 

230-242. 
See,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David,  congenial  spirits,  i.  309. 
Selley,  Rev.  John  B.,  his  arrival  in  Montreal,  iv.  144;  letter 

from,  284 ;  another  letter,  329  ;  to  the  author,  342  ;  in 

Toronto,  403. 
Seminary,  conference,  efforts  to  establish,   iii.  256  ;  success- 
ful, 278  ;  an  agent  appointed,  315. 
Sermon  on  Ephes.  v.  14,  by  Rev.  John  Sunday,  iv.  87. 
Shahwundais  on  trial,  iv.  185.     (See  John  Sunday.) 
Shaler,  Rev.  Henry,  introduced,  iii.  70  ;  Trafalgar,  244 ;  on 

trial,  253  ;  Albion,  268  ;  Toronto  Circuit,  297  ;  a  great 


332  CASE,  AND  HIS  COTEMPORARIES. 

revival,  342;  "Waterloo,  386;  Rideau,  416;  letter 
from,  430 ;  revival,  iv.  47;  Richmond,  340;  superan- 
nuated, v.  205. 

Shannon,  William,  a  supply,  v.  195. 

Shaw,  John,  his  birth  and  early^life,  v.  99  ;  on  trial,  117; 
student,  Cobourg,  v.  199. 

Strawbridge,  Rev.  Robert,  plants  Methodism  in  Maryland, 
i.  5. 

Shefford,  new  ground,  ii.  389  ;  success,  438  ;  M.  Lang,  487  ; 
souls  won,  iii.  48  ;  Wm.  Squire,  90  ;  advancement,  140, 
209;  R  Pope,  251;  Shenstone,  396,  438;  Tomkins, 
487 ;  iv.  180  ;  an  increase,  236  ;  E.  Botterell,  283  ; 
comments,  286;  Tomkins,  328;  E.  S.  Ingalls,  379; 
M.  McDonald,  410;  Montgomery,  441,  470;  G.  Dorey, 
v.  212. 

Shenstone,  Rev.  William,  his  arrival  in  Canada,  iii.  252 ; 
Shefford,  396,  438 ;  Three  Rivers,  487 ;  ditto,  iv. 
110. 

Shepherd,  Edmund,  his  first  appointment,  iii.  296  ;  on  trial, 
311  ;  success,  339;  Chairman,  iv.  358  ;  Bytown  District, 
v.  38;  expelled,  190. 

Shepherdson,  Daniel,  new  to  Canada,  ii.  143  ;  his  nativity, 
&c,  153;  Niagara  Circuit,  224;  Lyon's  Creek,  311 ; 
Ancaster,  362;  Yonge  Street,  417;  Long  Point, 
452. 

Sheply,  Joseph,  a  supply,  iv.  344  ;  portraiture  of,  v.  148. 

Sherbrooke,  first  mention  of,  iv.  326. 

Short,  William,  portraiture  of,  v.  248. 

Sickles,   Abraham,  short    account  of,    iv.  384 ;    Tuscarora 

Indian  revival,  v.  133;  Muncey,  186. 
Sidney  Circuit,  how  formed,  iii.  415  ;  interesting  letter,  467; 

laborers  in  demand,  iv.  257;  prosperity,  v.  17. 
Silvester,  Charles,  his  first  Circuit,  iv.  471  ;  success,  v.   132  ; 

Goderich,  190. 

Simcoe.     (See  Long  Point). 

Simmonds,  George,  an  exhorter,  iii.  295. 


INDEX.  333 

Simpson,  John,  a  native  supply,  iv.  175;  courtship,  176; 
comforts,  268. 

Six  Nation  Indians,  some  account  of  the,  ii.  402. 

Slater,  James  C,  his  early  life,  iv.  485  ;  Picton,  201. 

Slater,  Rev.  "William,  short  acceunt  of,  ii.  339  ;  a  supply, 
341 ;  on  trial,  392  ;  Thames,  398  ;  ord.  deacon,  iii.  3  ; 
labor  and  love,  34;  glorious  revivals,  69;  never  happier, 
83  ;  Cobourg,  106  ;  Del.  to  Gen'l.  Conf.,  170  ;  his  death, 
243. 

Slight,  Rev.  Benjamin,  Amherstburg,  iii.  458  ;  letter  from, 
470  ;  extracts  from  journal,  iv.  278  ;  his  address,  314; 
journal,  414  ;  return  to  Three  Rivers,  442  ;  more  from 
his  journal,  v.  22  ;  degree  of  M.  A.  conferred,  45  ; 
more  extracts  from  journal,  57-59  ;  the  year  1851,  81  ; 
report  from,  134  ;  Sherbrooke,  212. 

Smith,  Andrew  A.,  his  early  life,  v.  64  ;  ord.,    140  ;  Berlin, 

190. 
Smith,  Bela,  some  notice  of,  i.  216;  obituary,  218;  a  glimpse, 

229  ;  his  death,  236. 
Smith,  Benson,  a  supply,  iii.  457. 
Smith,  Edmund,  and  wife,  members  of  the  first  class  in  An- 

caster,  i.  160. 
Smith,  George,  a  local  supply,  iv.  363  ;  Brock,  389  ;  letter 

from,    427;  Mono,  451;  St.    Vincent,   v.    33;    Owen 

Sound,  36  ;  Nottawasaga,  70. 
Smith,  Isaac   B.,  some    account  of,    i.   147  ;  removal,  170  ; 

located,   262;  Ancaster,    ii.   130;  Niagara,    161,  224; 

Westminster,  305  ;  Long  Point,  356  ;  Lyon's  Creek,  iii. 

10;    superannuated,   53;  his    subsequent    course    and 

happy  death,  255. 
Smith,  Jacob,  member   of  first  class  at  Bowman's  Church,  i. 

160. 
Smith,  Kenneth  McK.,  conversion  of,  ii.   12  ;  portraiture  of, 

297  ;  Augusta,  329  ;  his  zeal,  365  ;  ord.   Elder,   iii.   3  ; 

Lyon's  Creek,  4  ;  superannuated,  53  ;  located,  96. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Ann,  the  first  Meth.  member  in  Bowman's  class, 
i.  160. 


334  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPOEARIES. 

Smith,  Philander,  his  conversion,  ii.  88  ;  further  notice  of, 
300  ;  a  watch-night  service,  323  ;  success,  379  ;  King- 
ston, 423  ;  Hallowell,  467 ;  ord.  Elder,  iii.  3  ;  Augusta, 
34  ;  P.  Elder,  182,  202,  245  ;  health  fails,  269 ;  super- 
annuated, 278  ;  Prescott,  388  ;  his  subsequent  career, 
iv.  155. 

Smith,  Thomas,  B.  and  J.  W.,  New  York  Conference,  i. 
236. 

Smith,  William,  short  account  of,  iii.  188  ;  Cavan,  190  ;  on 
trial,  210;  Grape  Island,  233;  Ancaster,  265  ;  Assist- 
ant Editor,  269;  York,  297;  Kingston,  343,  386; 
Brockville,  415  ;  last  visit,  371. 

Smith's  Creek  in  the  first  list  of  stations,  i.  19;  extent  of, 
110  ;  how  supplied  in  1815,  ii.  11  ;  divided,  139;  re- 
constructed, 255  ;  its  extent,  322;  increase,  374;  lead- 
ing men  converted,  418  ;  now  Cobourg,  iii.  72. 

Smithville,  the  first  day's  meeting  in  Canada  held  there,  iii. 
290. 

Snake,  Henry,  letter  from,  iii.  263. 

Snider,  Solomon,  short  account  of,  iii.  455  ;  dissatisfied,  iv. 
*         253 ;  again  in  harness,  426  ;  left,  v.  32. 

Snow,  William,  account  of,  i.  156  ;  St.  Lawrence,  178;  sub- 
sequent career,  200 ;  del.  to  Gen'l.  Conf.,  238 ;  located, 
ii.  140  ;  a  Presiding  Elder,  426. 

Snyder,  William,  his  conversion,  &c,  i.  134  ;  Kev.  Dr.  Bangs' 
account  of  him,  135;  a  perilous  journey,  144;  Ottawa, 
145  ;  located,  172. 

Sorel,  VUlageof,  ii.  81  ;  visited  by  Rev.  H.  Pope,  113. 

Sornborger,  Stephen,  short  account  of,  i.  251. 

Southwind,  John,  two  letters  from,  iv.  273. 

Sovereign,  George,  brief  reference  to,  ii.  452  ;  Toronto  Cir- 
cuit, iii.  60,  121  ;  conversational  powers,  149 ;  West- 
minster, 244  ;  located,  253 ;  a  supply,  265  ;  Malahide, 
iv.  321  ;  writes  the  obituary  of  S.  Heck,  350. 

Spears,  Duncan,  a  member  of  Father  Bowman's  first  class,  i. 
160. 

Spencer,  James,  first  glimpse  of,  iv.  158;  a  further  account, 
186  ;  elected  editor,  v.  96. 


index.  335 

Spicer,  Rev.  Tobias,  his  account  of  Henry  Ryan,  i.  24. 

Spore,  David,  brief  account  of,  ii.  296  .  Bay  Quinte,  325  ; 
sent  adrift,  381. 

Springer,  Oliver,  first  graduate  of  Vic.  Coll.,  iv.  456. 

Springer,  Richard,  some  account  of,  L  161. 

Squire,  Rev.  William,  some  account  of,  iii.  51  ;  Shefford,  90; 
success,  140,  209;  Quebec,  250,  275;  Montreal,  306, 
349,  396  ;  his  letter  to  the  Home  Com.,  400  ;  Stanstead, 
438,  488  ;  his  zeal,  iv.  109  ;  testimony,  180  ;  return  to 
Montreal,  330  ;  review  of  work,  355  ;  Quebec,  41 1 ; 
Chairman,  Kingston  District,  v.  38;  his  death,  138. 

Stamford  Circuit,  formation  of,  iii.  229  ;  a  good  year,  329 ; 
Stoney  and  Evans,  380  ;  Wright  and  Ryerson,  413, 
454. 

Stanstead  Circuit  and  P.  Ayer,  i.  140  ;  how  connected,  144; 
increase  on,  191  ;  further  increase,  ii.  19  ;  Benj.  Sabin's 
labors,  70 ;  details,  iii.  48  ;  a  new  man,  89  ;  gracious  re- 
vival, 140;  gloom,  431  ;  revival,  495. 

Stanstead  District,  its  stations  and  men,  v.  212. 

Steer,  William,  Kingston,  iii.  456  ;  his  piety,  iv.  32. 

Steinhaur,  Henry,  at  school,  iii.  24  ;  a  native  helper,  iv.  278; 
visit  to  England,  v.  218;  portraiture  of,  218;  his 
labors,  236. 

Stevens,  Rev.  Dr.,  his  history  quoted,  i.  26,  27 ;  his  account 
of  Wooster,  47  ;  his  estimate  of  Woolsey,  45 ;  his  account 
of  Dr.  Bangs,  1 04 ;  account  of  the  first  Canada  Camp- 
meeting,  113;  account  of  Thomas  Burch,  ii.  5-7 ;  of 
Wm.  Losee,  51. 

Stevenson,  William,  useful,  iv.  214;  short  account  of,  341 ; 
Whitby,  406. 

Stewards,  election  of,  to  be  annual,  iv.  3. 

Stewart,  John,  a  missionary  to  the  Wyandot  Indians,  ii. 
360. 

Stewart,  Schuyler,  a  supply,  iii.  456  ;  letter  from,  iv.  25  ;  his 
marriage  and  its  consequences,  26. 

Stinson,  Rev.  Joseph,  his  arrival  from  England,  ii.  t87  ; 
Kingston,  iii.  47  ;  Three  Rivers,    89,  140  ;  returns  4o 


336  CASE,    AND   HIS  C0TEMP0RARIES. 

England,  251  ;  Canada  again,  394 ;  letter  from,  431 ; 
Kingston,  456  ;  Tisiting  missions,  474  ;  letter  from,  iv. 
31 ;  daily  employed,  58-67  ;  mode  of  travel,  131 ;  ap- 
pointed President,  200 ;  Hamilton  Conference,  239  ; 
letters,  274  ;  Belleville  Conference,  287  ;  deputation  to 
England,  300 ;  work  in  England,  375. 

Stobbs,  Thomas,  snort  account  of,  v.  52  ;  Amherstburg,  72  ; 
London,  186. 

Stoddan,  Rev.  Goodwin,  a  staunch  advocate,  i.  195. 

Stoney,  Rev.  Edmund,  taken  into  society,  ii.  212;  a  local 
preacher,  410  ;  pioneering,  459  ;  London,  iii.  13,  59 ; 
Thames,  129;  Amherstburg,  150,  245;  Niagara,  290; 
Stamford,  329,  380  ;  Yonge  Street,  414,  455. 

Stoney  Creek,  the  battle  of,  .i.  306  ;  Ferguson  at,  ii.  30 ; 
notice  of  James  Gage,  Esq.,  42  ;  a  visit  to  the  battle- 
ground, 97;  a  ~  convention,  held  there,  493;  one 
hundred  and  seven  conversions,  iii.  328 ;  revival, 
330. 

Stouffville,  a  new  charge,  v.  123. 
%  Strachan,  Rev.  Dr.,  his  address  to  the  military,  i.    299  ;  his 
attack  on  Methodism,  386. 

Stratton,  Rev.  John  B.,  his  election  to  the  Bishopric,  iii. 
314. 

Strawbridge,  Robert,  plants  Methodism  in  Maryland,  i.  5. 

Street,  John,  Esq.,  of  St.  John's,  never  lost  his  piety,  ii. 
341. 

Streeter,  Rev.  Squire,  a  successful  worker,  i.  191. 

Streetsville,  early  settlers,  ii.  364. 

Stringfellow,  Charles,  a  timely  supply,  v.  1 28. 

Strong,  Rev.  JohnB.,  account  of,  i.  310  ;  Montreal,  313. 

Sunday,  John,  begins  to  travel,  iii.  301 ;  on  trial,  364 ;  mis- 
sionary, 367  ;  success,  370  ;  ord.,  443  ;  speech  of,  iv. 
62  ;  first  charge,  86  ;  sermon  of,  87  ;  visit  Engl.,  132  ; 
in  full  connexion,  185;  North  West,  209  ;  first  pasto- 
rate, 268  ;  Camp-meeting,  330  ;  letter  from,  468. 

Sunday-school,  the  first,  in  Montreal,  ii.  120  ;  its  prosperity, 
126. 

"  Sunday-school  Guardian,"  the,  pub.  in  Toronto,  v.  110. 


index.  337 

Superannuated    Ministers'   Fund,    scale    of    allowance,     v 

224. 
Sutcliffe,  Rev.  Ingham,  at  Three  Rivers,  iii.  396. 
Sutcliffe,  Rev.  William,   first  notice  of,   ii.  338  ;   org.  a  new 

Circuit,  387. 
Sutherland,  Alexander,  portraiture  of,  v.  254. 
Sutton,  William,  a  supply,  iv.  427. 
Swann,  Matthew,   his  antecedents,   v.    104;  on   trial,  117; 

Walsingham,  184. 
Swanston,  John,  letter  from,  iv.  272. 
Swansea,  Case's  birth  place,  i.  1. 
Swaze,  Caleb,  notice  of,  ii.  93  ;  on  trial,   96  ;   Westminster, 

130;  located,  169. 
Sweet,  Edmund  E.,  a  supply,  v.  250;  portraiture,  252. 
Sydenham,  Lord,  death  of,  iv.  352. 
Sykes,  Rev.  Oliver,  obituary  of,  v.  66. 

St. 

St.  Armand,  Circuit  formed,  ii.  203  ;  R.  Williams,  277  ; 
members,  349  ;  increase,  387  ;  Booth,  437  ;  no  increase, 
iii.  48  ;  M.  Lang,  89  ;  Turner,  209,  307,  349  ;  M.  Lang, 
396,  348. 

St.  Catharines,  formerly  Niagara  Circuit,  iii.  330  ;  interest- 
ing facts,  383;  Evans  and  Baxter,  413;  good  news, 
429  ;  R.  and  Metcalf,  455  ;  a  good  state,  460. 

St.  Catharines,  Conference  of  1845,  iv.  443. 

St.  Clair,  its  extent,  iii.  13  ;  increase,  59  ;  merged  into  other 
Circuits,  130;  James  Evans,  438;  letter  from,  471  ; 
prosperity,  iv.  75. 

St.  Francis  Circuit,  its  location,  i.  213. 

St.  John's,  Que.,  some  account  of,  ii.  22  ;  further  notice,  80. 

St.  Lawrence  Circuit,  i.  125  ;  ii.  12  ;  new  men,  53  ;  A. 
Prindle,  138;  in  1818,  186;  Black  River  District, 
301. 

St.  Regis,  i.  7  ;  a  crossing  place,  11 ;  a  large  Indian  Village, 
230. 


338  CASE,    AND  HIS    COTEMPOEARIES. 

St.  Thomas  first  named  as  a  Circuit,  iv.  122. 

T. 

Tackabury,  Rev.  John,  short  account  of,  ii.  361  ;  history  of, 

394  ;  his  death,  396. 
Taggart,  Charles,  brief  account  of,  iv.  392. 

Taunchey,  John,  a  native  helper,  iii.  374-5 ;  the  Credit 
Camp-meeting,  iv.  430. 

Tavern-keeper,  conversion  of  a,  i.  79. 

Taylor,  Rev.  Andrew,  his  arrival  in  Toronto,  iii.  456  ;  Brock- 
ville,  iv.  46  ;  death,  320. 

Taylor,  Rev.  James,  introduced,  v.  100 ;  on  trial,  117  ;  death, 
240. 

Taylor,  Rev.  Lachlin,  conversion  of,  iv.  54  ;  contrasts,  262  ; 
lent  to  Canada  East,  v.  38  ;  supernumerary,  76;  Agent 
U.  C.  B.  S.,  120. 

Temperance  societies  organized,  iii.  265 ;  in  Perth,  344. 

Templeton,  the  first  class  formed,  iv.  55. 

Thames  Circuit,  Nathan  Bangs  appointed  to,  i.  29  ;  revival 
on,  186  ;  an  increase,  ii.  129  ;  Wm.  Jones  the  preacher, 
152  ;  increase,  355  ;  two  vigorous  men,  398  ;  Jackson 
and  Griffis,  451  ;  another  increase,  iii.  12  ;  divided,  129; 
Ferguson,  150  ;  Huston,  245  ;  Phelps,  266  ;  Hurlburt, 
377  ;  H.  Dean,  385 ;  Burgess,  413 ;  letter,  iv.  19. 

Things  passed  over,  iii.  348. 

Thomas,  John,  begins  to  travel,  iii.  301. 

Thompson,  Dennis,  a  local  preacher,  v.  192. 

Thompson,  James,  obituary  of,  v.  203. 

Thornhill,  anew  church  built,  v.  133. 

Three  Rivers,  Circuit  formed,  i.  169  ;  R.  Pope,  ii.  385  ;  diffi- 
culties, 438  ;  chapel  opening,  489  ;  Knowlan,  iii.  46  ; 
Stinson,  89,  140 ;  Faulkner,  209 ;  Beckwith,  308  : 
Sutcliffe,  396. 

Throckmorten,  John,  the  death  of,  iv.  106. 

Tomblin,  "William,  a  glimpse  of,  v.  103  ;  a  supply,  147. 

Tomkins,  John,  a  short  account  of,  iii.  437. 


INDEX.  339 

Tomkins,  Nehemiah  U.,  in  Canada,  i.  16  j  Oswegotchie,  22; 
further  account  of,  82. 

Toronto  Circuit,  first  mention  of,  iii.  59  ;  Sovereign  and 
Black,  121;  its  extent,  122;  John  Black  in  charge, 
195;  preaching  places,  199,  200;  division,  238;  called 
Trafalgar,  243 ;  not  efficient,  268  ;  a  net  gain  of  sixty, 
297  ;  Corson,  331  ;  Bissell  and  Holtby,  366  ;  Thos. 
Fawcett,  414;  John  Beatty,  455;  letter,  462;  pros- 
perity, iv.  24. 

Toronto  City,  Turner  and  Ryerson,  iii.  455  ;  Lang  and 
Davidson,  iv.  22  ;  three  brothers,  191  ;  excitement, 
197  ;  Mr.  Cooney's  letter,  465.     (See  York.) 

Toronto  Conference  of  1837,  iv.  145  ;  of  1840,  special,  309  ; 
of  1841,  332  ;  of  1847,  v.  1 ;  of  1851,  84. 

Toronto  District,  its  stations  and  men,  iii.  455  ;  report  from, 
462  ;  its  stations  for  1835,  iv.  21  ;  enlarged,  191  ; 
change  of  men,  250  ;  its  stations  and  men  in  1841,  338  ; 
vacancies,  427  ;  supplies,  451  ;  a  transfer,  v.  32  ;  va- 
cancies in  1851,  97  ;  the  work,  how  provided  for,  120  ; 
two  supplies,  145  ;  stations  and  men  in  1854,  181  ; 
comments,  183. 

Torry,  Rev.  Alvin,  sent  to  Long  Point,  ii.  143;  his  early 
life,  &c,  154  ;  his  appointment  to  Canada,  156  ;  a  great 
revival,  159  ;  Bishop  Asbury's  travelling  companion, 
196;  Westminster,  219;  Ancaster,  307;  extract  from 
his  autobiography,  347  ;  Grand  River  Mission,  400 ; 
success,  446  ;  Clarke's  Commentary,  450  ;  success,  iii. 
20;  a  Conference  scene,  95  ;  failing  health,  130  ;  return 
to  U.  States,  131  ;  Genesee  Conference,  150. 

Townley,  Adam,  short  account  of,  iv.  2  ;  his  subsequent 
course,  242. 

Townley,  Rev.  Dr.,  a  letter  from,  iii.  315. 

Trafalgar  Township,  when  named,  i.  Ill  ;  Circuit  formed, 
iii.  243. 

Trickey,  Henry,  on  trial,  v.  12. 

Tucker,  Samuel,  introduced,  v.  244. 

Tuffy, ,  a  local  preacher  in  1780,  i.  6  ;  again  mentioned, 

135. 


340  CASE,    AND    HIS    COTEMPORAKIES. 

Tuke,  John,  his  early  life,  ii.  171  ;  notice  of,  217;  indiscre- 
tion, 253;  dropped,  300;  license  restored,  421;  a 
supply,  iv.  254. 

Tupper,  Mr.  Horace,  conversion  of,  ii.  136. 

Tupper,  Rev.  Reuben  E.,  a  supply,  iv.  125;  again  called, 
258  ;  Mississippi,  323. 

Turner,  Rev.  Thomas,  short  account  of,  iii.  89  ;  a  great  re- 
vival, 140  ;  St.  Armand's,  209  ;  Kingston,  275  ;  St. 
Armand's,  349;  St.  Clair,  352 ;  Kingston,  438;  York, 
444  ;  Toronto  City,  455. 

Turver,  Charles,  a  supply,  iv.  466  ;  ord.,  v.  29 ;  visiting 
England,  118. 

U. 

Unconditional  perseverance,  preaching  against,  i.  278. 

Union  Convention,  a  Christian,  v.  220. 

Union  of  the  Canada  Methodists  with  the  British  Wesleyans, 
projected,  iii.  353;  editorial  on,  354;  the  Conf.  of 
1832,  resolutions  on,  356-364  ;  how  regarded,  392-396 ; 
extract  from  Magazine,  400  ;  union  ratified,  404  ;  oppo- 
sition to,  419.     (See  Methodism  in  Canada.) 

University  Bill,  Hon.  Mr.  Draper's,  iv.  433. 

Upper  Canada  Academy,  charter  for,  iv.  31 ;  opened,  124  ; 
forty  students  converted,  158;  a  new  Principal,  249; 
incorporated  as  Victoria  College,  351  ;  its  first  graduate, 
456. 

Upper  Canada  District,  its  extent,  i.  108,  123  ;  its  stations 
and  men,  143,  154;  for  1809,  169;  for  1810,  199;  for 
1811,  239;  for  1812,  259;  for  1815,  ii.  3;  for  1816, 
36  ;  for  1817,  90  ;  for  1818,  142  ;  for  1819,  218  ;  for 
1820,  304;  for  1821,  353;  for  1822,  397;  for  1823, 
442.     (See  Niagara  District.) 

V. 

Valedictory  service,  a,  v.  164. 

Van  Camp,  John,  senr.,  an  early  convert,  i.  8  ;  marriage  of, 
209  ;  a  class-leader,  ii.  133 ;  his  death,  v.  110. 


INDEX.  341 

Vanderlip,  Rev.  Elias,  kind  and  fatherly,  i.  141. 

Vandusen,  Rev.  Conrad,  conversion  of,  iii.  99  ;  Lis  first  Cir- 
cuit, 268  ;  on  trial,  277  ;  Whitby,  296;  a  broken  leg, 
339  ;  Cavan,  387  ;  Dumfries,  414,  455  ;  Secretary  of 
Conference,  v.  29  ;  Treasurer  and  Agent  of  Vic.  Coll., 
68. 

Van  Nest,  Rev.  Peter,  Canada  in  1802,  i.  16  ;  Oswegotchie, 

34  ;  facts  of  his  early  life,  73  ;  enters  the  ministry,  74- 
75  ;  his  death,  82  ;  supplementary,  326,  330. 

VanNorman,  Rev.  Daniel  C,  his  antecedents,  iv.  289  ;  Fe- 
male Academy,  370  ;  Burlington  Academy,  Hamilton, 
v.  40 ;  its  vigor  and  success,  76  ;  he  removes  to  the  U. 
S.,  108. 

VanNorman,  Isaac,  his  remembrances  of  William  Anson,  i. 
65  ;  his  account  of  Niagara  Circuit,  163  ;  his  hospitality, 
ii.  226 ;  his  joy,  iii.  148  ;  his  son,  iv.  289. 

Vaux,  Thomas,  Esq.,  some  reference  to,  iii.  8  ;  an  incident, 
7  ;  teaching,  19  ;  Toronto,  145  ;  Sec.  of  Miss'y.  Society, 
368  ;  his  letter  to  the  "  Guardian,"  v.  84  ;  account  of 
revival  in  Quebec,  167. 

Victoria  College,  incorporation  of,  iv.  351  ;  opening  of,  369  ; 
its  first  examination,  373 ;  its  scholarship  scheme,  v. 
130  ;  further  advanced,  173  ;  some  distinguished  gradu- 
ates, 256 ;  autumn  prospects,  257.  (See  U.  C.  Aca- 
demy.) 

Virgin,  Rev.  Charles,  obituary  of,  i.  167. 

W. 
Wakefield,  John,  a  brief  account  of,  v.  176. 
Wakeley's  Heroes  of  Methodism  quoted  from,  ii.  291. 
Waldron,  Rev.   Solomon,  some  account  of,  ii.  423  ;  on  trial 
440";  his  narrative,   469;  Perth,  484;  letter  from,  iii 

35  ;  incidents,  36  ;  melted,  45  ;  in  full  connexion,  53 
Hallowell,  103;  Grape  Island,  190,  201  ;  Bay  Quinte 
233;    Rideau,    273;    full  of   life   and   fire,    299,   389 
Whitby,  414,  456  ;  letters,  iv.  71  ;  explanation,  280. 

Walker,  Levi,  a  short  account  of,  i.  149. 


342  CASE,  AND    HIS    COTEMPORARIES. 

Walker,  Moses,  a  Mohawk  Chief,  iii.  412  ;  ord.,  443. 
Walpole,  a  new  mission,  iv.  212. 
Walpole  Island,  an  Indian  mission,  iv.  170. 
"War,  declaration  of,  i.  246  ;  its  three  years'  continuance,  258. 
Ward,  Edward,  a  home  missionary,  v.  245. 
Ward,  James,  a  supply,  iii.  455. 
Warner,  Christian,  his  conversion,  i.  89. 
Warner,  Lewis,  his  first  year,  iii.  346;  on  trial,  364'  By- 
town,   389;    Rideau,    416;    Nelson,  455;    fervent   in 

spirit,  iv.  33 ;  a  card  from,  257. 
Washington,  George,  a  glimpse  of,  v.  73  ;  a  supply,  103  ; 

Nelson,  123. 
Warren,  Elijah,  early  history  of,  ii.  40;  Thames,  129;  his 

location  and  subsequent  course,  140. 
Waterloo  Circuit  separate  from  Kingston,  iii.  342.;  James 

Currie,  415  ;  letter,  464  ;  its  extent,  iv.  194. 
Watson,  John,  a  witness  of  perfect  love,  iii.   411 ;  Long 

Point,  413;  Ancaster,  454. 
Webster,  John,  his  ordination,  v.  85. 
Webster,  Mr.,  a  local  preacher,  i.  283. 
Webster,  Thomas,  D.D.,  his  history  quoted,  iii.  422-424,  447- 

450. 
Wesley,  Rev.  John,  his  death  noticed,  i.  8. 

"  Wesleyan,"  the,  pub.  in  Montreal,  iv.  327  ;  Toronto,  342J; 
discontinued,  433. 

Westminster  Circuit,  formation  of,  ii.  38  ;  members,  40 ; 
success,  130;  large  increase,  153;  Smith  and  Belton, 
305  ;  increase,  399 ;  decrease,  452  ;  increase  again,  iii. 
12;  Jackson,  58;  Corson,  128;  M.  Whiting,  150;  its 
extent  and  losses,  244;  Hurlburt,-265  ;  Belton,  293; 
a  revival,  336  ;  Biggar  and  Davis,  384  ;  Rose  and  Ker, 
413,  454;  letter  from  S.  Rose,  461. 

Whatcoat,  Bishop,  a  reference  to  his  death,  i.  141. 

Whitby  Circuit,  Meth.  first  organized,  ii.  46  ;  Circuit  formed, 
iii.  108  ;  R.  Corson,  forty  preaching  places,  236  ;  Van- 
dusen,  268 ;  useful  labors,  296 ;  Norris  and  Patrick, 


INDEX.  343 

338;  Norris  and  Musgrove,  387;  divided,  414;  Wal- 
dron  and  McMullen,  456  ;  prosperity,  iv.  27  ;  hard 
times,  253. 

White,  Ebenezer,  some  account  of,  i.  315. 

White,  Edward,  a  supply,  v.  34. 

Whitehead,  Rev.  Thomas,  his  birth,  &c,  i.  131  ;  appointed 
to  Canada,  132;  his  portraiture,  133;  a  reference  to, 
313;  on  Committee,  ii.  1  ;  Ancaster,  10;  Sup'd.,  89; 
letter  to  Mr.  Pope,  212  ;  visiting  the  Indians,  360 ;  his 
journal,  102-106  ;  his  death,  475. 

Whiting,  Rev.  Lansford,  i.  191  ;  his  obituary,  330. 

Whiting,  Rev.    Matthew,  a  short  account  of,  iii.   127;  on 
trial,    143 ;    Westminster,    150  ;    London,    244,    265  ; 
Amherstburg,  337  ;  Bay  Quinte,  415  ;  letter  of,  iv.  33 
at  Woodstock,  v.  72. 

Whiting,  Richard,  contrasts,  iv.  450. 

Wigle,  Joseph,  obituary  of,  i.  188. 

Wilkinson,  Rev.  Henry,  his  conversion,  ii.  453  ;  preaching 
talent,  291  ;  L.  Point,  293;  on  trial,  311  ;  some  ac- 
count of,  312  ;  in  labors  abundant,  336  ;  L.  Point,  384  ; 
his  modesty,  411  ;  Ancaster,  413;  Conference  experi- 
ence, 443  ;  interesting  letters,  iv.  36  ;  a  Camp-meeting, 
41  ;  his  first  District,  154;  efficient  labors,  198;  an- 
other move,  258  ;  Secretary  of  Conference,  418  ;  Presi- 
dent, 443. 

Wilkinson,  Henry,  teaching,  iv.  128. 

Wilkinson,  John,  short  account  of,  iv.  292. 

Will,  John  C,  a  supply,  iv.  24. 

Williams,  John,  some  account  of,  iv.  359  ;  his  death,  v.  240. 

Williams,  John  A.,  his  early  history,  iv.  483  ;  Wilton,  v. 
202. 

Williams,  Richard,  appointed  to  Montreal,  i.  312;  Quebec, 
313  ;  Montreal  again,  ii.  21  ;  reference  to,  75  ;  Mel- 
bourne, 118;  Chairman,  270;  St.  Armand's,  338; 
Kingston,  385,  436  ;  Quebec,  iii.  52. 

Williams,  Richard,  a  supply,  iv.  389  ;  Lake  Simcoe,  427  ; 
Owen  Sound,  451. 


344  CASE,  AND    HIS    C0TEMP0RARIES. 

Williams,  Thomas,  introduced,  iv.  321  ;  on  trial,  334  ;  Glan- 

ford,  v.  182. 
Williams,  Thomas  C,  his  ancestors,  i.  130. 
Williams,  William,  a  supply,  v.  102  ;  Aylmer,  184. 
Williams,  William  H.,  his  relationship,  i.    130;  his  early 

life,  <fec,  ii.   298;  first  Circuit,   306;  L.  Point,   356; 

a  long  move,  424  ;  a  great  revival,  474  ;  ord.  Elder, 

iii.  3  ;  Yonge  St.,  16  ;  Toronto  Circuit,  60  ;  Perth,  137 ; 

Mississippi,    208;    Cornwall,    247;    Brockville,    299; 

Elizabethtown,  345;  Richmond,  389,  416;  Waterloo, 

iv.  339  ;  Percy,  v.  201. 
Williston,  John  K.,  a  short5  account  of,  iii.   385  j  Nelson, 

414  ;  Yonge  Street,  455  ;  letter  from,  iv.  280;  Thames, 

337  ;  Strathroy,  v.  187. 
Willoughby,  William,  a  desirable  acquisition,  iv.   119;  in 

full  connexion,  288  ;  Elizabethtown,   340  ;  a  bachelor, 

392  ;  Newmarket,  v.  197. 
Willson,  Hugh,  an  incident,  i.  131  ;  wise  and  well-informed, 

303  ;  E.  Ryerson's  home,  iii.  8. 
Willson,  John  V.,  a  supply,  v.  147  ;  Nanticoke,  183. 
Willson,  Levi,  his  recollections  of  E.  Ryerson's  first  sermon, 

iii.  8. 
Wilson,  John,  M.A.,  appointed  Professor  in  Vic.  Coll.,  v. 

131. 
Wilson,  Rev.  James,  his  birth  and  early  history,  ii.  173  ;  ex- 
tract from  his  journal,  175;  his  portraiture,  177;  Hal- 

lowell,  374  ;  a  power  for  good,  419  ;  a  further  glimpse, 

iii.  33  ;  sermon,  45  ;  again  effective,  69  ;  Whitby,  108, 

194  ;  Trafalgar,  243  ;  Ancaster,  264  ;  Stamford,  290  ; 

Niagara,  329  ;  superannuated,  365  ;  death,  v.  93. 
Wilson,  Rev.  Shipley  M.,  in  deacon's  orders,  ii.  19  ;  short 

account  of,  20. 

Wilson,  Richard,  his  early  history,  v.  47  ;  Lochabar,  155  ; 
Russeltown,  v.  212. 

Witted,  John  C,  his  visit  to  the  Hamilton  Conference,  v. 
,  50 ;  leave  to  visit  England,  106  ;  his  return,  129  ;  Col- 
borne,  199. 

Wood,  Anthony,  death  of,  iii.  486. 


index.  345 

"Wood,  Rev.  Charles,  recommended,  ii.  329 ;  conjectures, 
327  ;  doubts,  421  ;  health  fails,  483  ;  on  trial,  iii.  210  ; 
Augusta,  246 ;  Mississippi,  300 ;  Richmond,  346  ; 
Elizabethtown,  388  ;  A.  Hurlburt  his  colleague,  416. 

Wood,  Rev.  Enoch,  D.D.,  his  visit  to  Toronto  Conference, 
v.  2 ;  appointed  Sup't.  of  Can.  Meth.  Missions,  8  ;  his 
early  history,  8-9  ;  appointed  President,  77  ;  enters  the 
Chair,  84 ;  his  Indian  name,  131  ;  visit  to  Canada 
East,  164. 

Wood,  William,  a  supply,  iv.  348. 

Woodstock,  H.  Byers  there,  iv.  375  ;  a  pleasant  field,  436  ; 
zeal,  466  ;  Fawcett  and  Cawthorne,  v.  14;  a  new 
church  opened,  162  ;  McCullough  and  Dixon,  184. 

Woodsworth,  Richard,  his  arrival  in  York,  iii.  364. 

Woolsey,  Rev.  Elijah,  Upper  Circuit,  i.  14  ;  incident  of, 
44 ;  history,  45  ;  death,  46  ;  correction  and  obituary, 
328. 

Woolsey,  Rev.  Thomas,  a  supply,  v.  127;  on  trial,  141  ; 
short  notice  of,  142;  Brighton,  201;  Saskatchewan, 
219. 

Woolwich  Township,  first  sermon  in,  ii.  458. 

Wooster,  Rev.  Hezekiah  C,  app't.  to  Canada,  i.  14;  revi- 
val, 15  ;  goes  home  to  die,  15  ;  a  further  account  of, 
46  ;  his  power  in  prayer,  48 ;  death,  51. 

Wright,  Rev.  Daniel,  a  supply,  iv.  257  ;  Bath  and  Isle  of 
Tanti,  339  ;  Vic.  College,  394. 

Wright,  Rev.  David,  recommended,  ii.  329  ;  his  early  life, 
330  ;  conversion,  332  ;  his  first  Circuit,  375  ;  Belleville, 
421  ;  on  trial,  441  ;  Hallowell,  467  ;  one  hundred  souls, 
iii.  37  ;  in  full  connexion,  53  ;  Augusta,  133  ;  Matilda, 
205  ;  success,  245  ;  Cobourg,  267,  295  ;  revival,  332  ; 
Yonge  Street,  381  ;  Stamford,  413,  454  ;  letter  from, 
iv.  16;  Credit,  339;  Agent  for  Connexional  Funds, 
394  ;  superannuated,  v.  182. 

Wyandot  Indians,   their  first  missionary,  ii.   360 ;  further 
notice  of,  463  ;  their  mumbers,  iii.  54;  at  Amherstburg, 
iv.  86. 
15* 


346  CASE,    AND    HIS    COTEMPOBARIES. 

Y. 

Year  of  Wesley's  death,  the,  i.  8. 

Yellowhead  Chief,  exhorting,  iii.  121. 

Yellowhead  Island,  John  S.  Attwood,  iii.  269 ;  Allison  and 
Currie,  296  ;  change  of  name  to  Lake  Simeoe  Mission, 
334. 

Yeomans,  Dr.,  a  guide,  iii.  71. 

Yonge  Street  first  in  the  station  list,  i.  19  ;  Daniel  Pickett 
there  alone,  26;  its  extent,  111  ;  a  decrease,  ii.  11; 
doubts,  42  ;  another  decrease,  1 30 ;  exchange  of  minis- 
ters, 167;  David  Youmans,  227;  increase,  311  ;  Ryer- 
son  and  Slater,  459  ;  prosperity,  iii.  60 ;  Ryerson  and 
Beatty,  109  ;  Wilson,  194  ;  division,  238  ;  Norris,  268; 
Norris  and  Adams,  296  ;  a  revival,  328  ;  large  increase, 
332 ;  showers  of  blessings,  381  ;  Corson  and  Stoney, 
414;  Stoney  and  Williston,455;  Beatty  and  Mulkins,  iv. 
23  ;  Thomas  Bevitt,  328. 

York,  first  church  erected  in,  ii.  131  ;  opening  of,  and  society 
formed,  140;  Circuit  organized,' 165;  its  first  class,  166 ; 
a  remarkable  case,  226 ;  Brit.  Wes.  Society  formed,  227  ; 
population  of,  in  1820,  320  ;  the  new  settlements,  363 ; 
Rev.  Fitch  Reed's  report,  265  ;  increase,  416  ;  supplied, 
459;  Wm.  H.  Williams,  iii.  16;  prosperity,  60; 
Ryerson  and  Beatty,  109  ;  William  R.,  194;  a  happy 
pastorate,  239  ;  a  Bokim,  268  ;  William  Smith,  297  ; 
the  seat  oi  Conference,  309;  Adelaide  Street  Church 
built,  332 ;  George  Street  Church  dedicated,  353 ; 
Alex.  Irvine,  381,  414.     (See  Toronto  City.) 

York  Conference  of  1831,  an  account  of,  iii.  309  ;  of  1833, 
404. 

York  District,  its.  P.  Elder,  iii.  411 ;  its  stations  and  men, 
455. 

York  "  Gazette,"  the,  published,  i.  258. 

Youmans,  Rev.  David,  short  account  of,  i.  291  ;  ord.  deacon, 
ii.  1 ;  Ancaster,  10;  Westminster,  130;  supernumerary, 
311  ;  located,  391  ;  re-admitted,  iii.  147  ;  Yonge  Street, 


INDEX.  347 

238  ;  Toronto  Circuit,  268 ;  Credit  Mission,  297;  Quar. 

Meeting,  303  ;  his  death,  313. 
Youmans,  Jay  S.,  portraiture  of,  v.  175. 
Young,  Rev.  George,  a  letter  from,  i.  266  ;  some  account  of, 

iv.  359  ;  a  change  unexpected,  v.  68. 
Young,  Rev.  "William,  licensed  to  exhort,  iii.  268  ;  Cavan, 

339  ;  letter  from,  344  ;  explanation,  iv.  452. 


Zeal,  worthy  of  imitation,  iv.  12;  in  the  missionary  cause, 
446. 


THE   BUT). 


POSTSCEIPT. 


Omissions  and  Mistakes  Brought  to  Light  in 
Preparing  the  Alphabetical  Index  : — (1)  The  admission 
of  Rev.  J.  G.  Witted  into  the  Conference  in  1850  is  omitted. 
(2)  We  neglected  to  give  Rev.  John  Webster  any  notice  be- 
fore his  ordination,  mentioned  on  page  85,  vol.  v.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  sturdy  Webster  family,  Township  of  London, 
himself  a  good  man  and  true.  (3)  On  page  247,  vol.  v.,  I 
erroneously  charged  Mr.  Cornish's  Hand-Book  with  furnish- 
ing no  account  of  the  Rev.  H.  H.  Perdue,  for  more  informa- 
tion of  whom  see  the  Hand-Book.  (4)  It  is  thought  that  I 
have  confused  matters  •  a  little  relative  to  the  two  younger 
Armstrongs,  John  and  John  B. :  the  latter  began  his  labors 
on  the  L'Orignal  Circuit,  the  former  on  the  Eaton  ;  and,  (5), 
worse  than  all,  I  omitted  our  noble,  zealous,  soul-saving  Rev. 
John  C.  Ash  altogether.  He  was  one  of  the  supplies  for 
1855-56,  a  Devonshire  man,  who  spent  a  year  at  Victoria 
College,  and  has  labored  faithfully  the  other  twenty-one 
years.  (6)  There  is  no  mention  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Be 
Wolfe,  save  in  the  stations  from  year  to  year.  This  is  to  be 
regretted,  as  he   was  one   of  the  most  amiable  and  accom- 


11  POSTSCRIPT. 

plished  ministers  in.  the  work,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  who, 
I  believe,  had  been  designed  for  the  law.  (7)  The  name  of 
the  supply  for  Mud  Lake,  mentioned  on  page  126,  vol.  i.,  is 
omitted :  it  was  dear  Orrin  H.  Mlsworth.  (8)  On  pages  174 
and  178,  vol.  v.,  "  George  L.  Richardson"  should  have  been 
G.  T.  R. — a  typographical  error.  (9)  Henry  Tomkine, 
Clarenceville,  on  page  212,  vol.  v.,  should  be  Henry 
Lanton. 


HUMBLE  OVERTURE 


METHODIST    UNIFICATION 


DOMINION     OF    CANADA. 


JOHN     CARROLL 


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arc  like  the  bars  of  a  castle."— Proverbs  xviii.  19. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


The  dead-lock  now  existing  to  the  further  progress  of  unification 
among  the  Methodists  of  Canada,  appears  to  be  on  the  principle  of  "one 
is  afraid,  and  the  other  dare  not."  Men  of  office  have  their  good  standing 
with  their  respective  denominations  to  preserve,  and  they  :  re  afraid  of 
committing  the  body  to  something  which  tbeir  backers  will  not  approve. 
In  which  case,  if  some  un-offieial  man  would  propound  a  plan,  which  would 
embrace  the  concessions  t->  be  on  all  sides,  in  mere  outline,  it  would  be 
something  to  start  f i  om.  This  proposal  few  will  be  willing  to  make,  for 
fear  of  losing  prestige  or  something  else. 

Now,  I  have  neither  office  nor  prestige  to  lose ;  and  feeling  a  profound 
interest  in  Canada  Methodism,  with  the  central  body  of  which  I  have 
stood  associated  for  more  than  fifty  years, — eschewing  the  invitations  of 
three  successive  generations  of  disruptionists.  The  present  brochure  will 
be  considered  venturesome  by  my  friends,  but  I  cheerfully  take  the 
venture.  I  have  reason  to  know  that  former  proposals  did  good  to  the 
cause  of  unity,  though  perhaps  not  to  myself. 

In  the  modifications  of  our  own  system  proposed,  I  am  sure  I  have  the 
majority  of  members  and  ministers  on  my  side,  if  they  are  not  over-awed 
by  the  rigid  conservatives,  whose  tenacity  supply  the  place  of  numbers. 
But  I  implore  them  to  consider  the  case  with  an  enlightened  consideration 
of  all  the  circumstances,  and  to  beware  lest  they  prevent  at  this  crisis  the 
accomplishment  of  unification  for  ever.  Some  may  think  that  my  dis- 
approval of  some  pet  theories  are  rather  bluntly  expressed,  but  I  think  by 
this  time  they  ought  to  be  convinced  that  1  am  neither  partial  nor  unkind. 

I  have  mentioned  several  things  as  matters  of  personal  preference, 
which  may  be  relegated  to  the  category  of  minor  details,  and  accepted  or 
not  as  in  no  wise  vital  to  the  general  character  of  the  scheme.  Many 
things  in  the  organization  when  first  launched  would  doubtless  be  modified 
in  the  process  of  legislation  from  four  years  to  four  years. 

Inviting  the  prayers  of  all  the  friends  of  unity,  "  that  we  all  may  be 
one,"  I  remain,  with  love  to  all  concerned, 

The  Author. 


A  HUMBLE  OVERTURE,  &c. 


METHODIST  DIVISIONS  A  DISGRACE  AND  A  CAUSE  OF  FEEBLENESS. 

'TpHE  many  divisions  in  Methodism  are  nothing  to  its  credit, 
*■  showing  that  those  who  bear  the  name  have  set  too  little  store  by 
unity,  which  they  have  so  often  severed  for  vei;y  trifling  considerations. 
If  this  pettish  tendency  to  interrupt  communion  on  trivial  grounds 
marked  the  infancy  of  our  denomination,  it  is  time  that  we  had  "  put 
away  childish  things,"  in  this  particular  ;  and  that  we  now  cultivate 
the  dignity  of  denominational  manhood.  If  we  do  not,  we  shall  find 
ourselves  outstripped  by  a  sister  denomination,  which  has  recently 
composed  the  differences  between  almost  as  many  sections  of  Presby- 
terianism  as  there  are  of  Methodism 

NONE  OF  OUR  ORIGINAL  PRINCIPLES  CONFLICT  WITH 
COMPROMISE. 

Looking  back  on  the  original  testimony  and  character  of  Metho- 
dism, which  all  sections  of  it  profess  to  revere,  there  is  really  no 
principle  involved  that  need  keep  us  apart.  Methodism  was  not  the 
result  of  declaring  for  or  against  Church  establishments,  for  it  pro- 
nounced an  establishment  from  the  first,  "a  merely  human  institution ;" 
it  did  not  declare  for  or  against  Presbyterialism,  or  Episcopacy,  for  its 
Presbyterial  section  in  England  holds  fraternal  relations  with  its 
Presbyterio-Episcopal  Sister  in  the  United  States,  and  its  ordinations 
and  ministerial  status  are  reciprocally  regarded  as  on  a  par.  Con- 
nexionalism,  however,  is  a  characteristic  of  Methodism  under  every 
name  and  aspect  which  its  many  sections  have  assumed,  or  preserved. 

There  are  only  three  features  essential  to  Methodism,  and  these 
three  have  be"en  retained  by  all  :  namely,  its  peculiar  doctrines,  or  its 
manner  of  emphasizing  the  doctrine  of  assurance,  or  the  witness  of 
the  Spirit,  and  the  possibility  of  "perfecting"  of  that  "holiness,"  "without 
which  no  man  shall  see  God  ; "  certain  prudential  means  of  grace  of 
a  social  character,  such  as  the  class  and  fellowship  meeting,  and  the 
lovefeast  ;  and  the  itinerancy,  or  the  united,  rotating,  itinerant  pas- 
torate, including  a  central  appointing  power.  Methodism  is  a  revival 
— it  means  conversion :  and  the  preaching  of  the  above-mentioned 
doctrines,  and  the  maintenance  of  a  ministry  detached  from  local 
ties,  and  the  frequent  assembling  together  above  referred  to,  are  neces- 
sary to  conserve  that  revival  and  to  promote  conversions,  or  to  the 
"  spread  of  scriptural  holiness  over  the  land."  If  these  essentials  are 
preserved,  other  things  may  be  modified  according  to  circumstances  ; 
for  it  has  been  a  principle  in  Methodism  from  the  first,  that  no  exact 
system  of  Church  order  h  taught  in  the  New  Testament. 

THE  CHANGES  PROPOSED   ARE  NO  "  CONCESSION." 
To  adopt  a  useful  feature  by  one  section  from  another,  or  in  form- 
ing a  union  with  another,  cannot  be  called  a  "concession."    And,  after 


[    4    ] 

the  experience  of  eighty-five  years  in  Canada,  and  the  experiments 
which  have  been  tried,  I  believe  we  could  compile  a  better  system  of 
Methodism  than  is  ex^nplified  in  any  one  section  of  it  now  upon 
earth,  a  system  which  would  give  all  reasonable  consideration  to  the 
laity,  combined  with  efficiency  to  the  administration  of  the  pastorate  ; 
and  a  system  which  would  give  all  reasonable  liberty  to  local  courts, 
in  all  matters  not  infringing  on  connexional  authority  and  unity, 
and  yet  would  provide  for  a  thorough  central  authority  and  supervision, 
which  the  exigencies  and  energy  of  a  Connexion  require. 

LAY  RIGHTS. 

With  these  general  principles  laid  down,  I  come  to  the  details  of 
their  application.  As  to  the  first  of  these,  a  proper  consideration  to 
the  laity,  they  should  share  in  all  the  counsels  of  the  Church,  excepting 
what  refers  strictly  to  the  work  which  is  peculiarly  a  minister's,  and  to 
the  character  of  ministers,  which,  so  long  as  the  laity  are  tried  by  a 
jury  of  their  own  peers,  should  be  canvassed  by  ministers  alone,  not 
prohibiting  charges  to  be  preferred  by  laymen,  of  course.  Personally, 
I  do  not  attach  so  much  importance  to  this  particular  as  some,  for  i 
would  be  quite  as  willing  to  be  tried  by  laymen  as  ministers,  in  expec- 
tation of  quite  as  just  or  lenient  a  verdict ;  but  the  majority  of  all  the 
ministers  in  all  the  older  branches  of  Methodism  do  not  feel  as  I  do, 
and  regard  this  point  as  vital.  And  it  would  be  unjust  and  unreason- 
able to  wrest  the  prerogative  from  them,  so  long  as  they  continue  to 
exercise  it  with  the  fidelity  they  have  done  in  the  past,  especially  as 
they  only,  in  contradistinction  from  the  laity,  are  subject  to  an  annual 
examination  of  character.  If  all  the  lay-members  of  District 
Meetings  and  Conferences  had  the  following  questions  asked  about 
themselves,  there  would  be  some  reason  in  making  the  inquiry 
reciprocal  :  namely,  "  Is  there  any  thing  against  his  moral  and 
religious  character  ?  Does  he  believe  our  doctrines,  and  obey  our 
discipline,  especially  in  the  matter  of  reading  the  Scriptures,  maintain- 
ing family  and  private  prayer,  observing  the  Lord's  Supper,  and 
fasting  or  abstinence?  Has  he  been  punctual  in  attending  all  the 
society  meetings,  especially  prayer  and  class-meetings?  Is  he 
equitable  in  all  his  business  transactions  ? " 

LAYMEN  IN  THE  DISTRICT  MEETINGS  AND  ANNUAL  CONFERENCES. 

But  this  one  matter  of  character  conceded,  I  think  it  is  very 
unwise  in  the  ministry,  whether  it  be  to  further  unify  the  body  or  not, 
to  withstand  the  claim  of  a  seat  to  laymen  in  the  District  Meeting  and 
the  Annual  Conference,  which  is  only  the  District  Meeting  on  a  larger 
scale,  on  all  the  questions  propounded,  [as  to  the  District  Meeting] 
from  question  "  Fifth,"  page  40  of  the  Discipline  of  the  M.  C.  OF 
Canada,  to  the  end,  on  page  49,  except  such  as  may  be  construed  to 
relate  to  the  character  and  qualifications  of  ministers  ;  and,  [as  to  the 
Annnal  Conferences]  all  from  question  3rd,  Discipline,  page  32,  to 
question  19,  on  the  following  page,  excepting  questions  12,  13,  and 
14.  I  do  not  stop  to  argue  the  propriety  of  this,  as  it  is  a  necessary 
concession  from  the  largest  body  in  order  to  the  adhesion  of  nearly  all 
the  others  ;  and  I  know  of  no  reason  from  Scripture,  or  practical 
utility,  against  the  lay  participation  indicated. 


[   s   J 

When  I  hear  any  such  reasons  urged,  it  will  be  time  enough  to 
answer  them,  which,  I  presume  to  say,  will  be  no  very  difficult  task. 
With  these  qualifications,  I  would  most  readily  concur  in  the  manifesto 
of  the  Primitive  Methodist  Conference,  that  "  there  shall  be  an  equal 
number  of  Laymen  to  Ministers  in  all  our  Church  courts." 

But  I  do  not  think  it  would  be  wise  or  well  to  allow  "  all  business 
meetings  to  elect  their  own  chairmen."  If  it  be  simply  some  com- 
mittee for  a  temporary  object,  that  would  follow  of  course  ;  or  if  it 
were  a  connexional  one  and  the  disciplinary  chairman  unable  to 
attend ;  but  tor  District  Meetings,  Quarterly  Official  Meetings, 
Leaders  and  Stewards'  Meetings,  and  Trustee  Meetings,  to  be  able  to 
set  aside  the  Chairman  or  Superintendent,  is  to  empower  them  to  sin 
against  connexional  unity,  and  to  carry  a  district  or  circuit  out  of  the 
body  which  it  is  the  very  design  of  connexionalism  to  prevent.  Such 
an  act  is  as  much  disrespectful  to  the  laymen  in  the  court  above,  which 
appointed  the  presiding  officer,  as  it  is  to  the  clergymen  in  that  body. 

CHAIRMEN  OF  CHURCH  BOARDS  TO  BE  MINISTERS. 

As  to  secular  men  being  eligible  to  preside  in  Conferences, 
whether  Annual  or  General,  it  is  simply  ridiculous.  Can  you  expect  a 
man  to  handle  the  deliberations  of  an  ecclesiastical  body  and  to  decide 
questions  of  Church  order,  the  bent  of  whose  mind  has  been  to  the 
"  study  of  things  carnal  and  secular,"  in  preference  to  one  who  has 
spent  years  in  familiar  intercourse  with  such  matters  ?  As  well  might 
you  depute  one  of  these  clerics  to  go  and  conduct  the  commercial 
transactions  of  that  secular  candidate.  Again,  is  it  seemly  that  a 
gentleman,  whose  business  posters  are  at  that  moment  on  the  fence, 
should  be  presiding  over  the  deliberations  of  a  grave  ecclesiastical 
body?  Would  it  not  shock  the  sense  of  propriety  of  ten  thousand, 
where  it  would  gratify  the  whim  of  one?  It  cannot  be  hoped  that 
this  will  ever  be  conceded.  I  believe  I  would  go  farther  than  almost 
any  other  of  the  oldest  body  for  organic  unity,  but  I  would  never  concur 
in  that.  It  is  suicidal  to  the  Church  itself,  to  wish  to  deprive  ministers 
from  performing  the  very  functions  for  which  they  have  been  trained 
and  are  qualified. 

NOMINATIONS  IN  THE  QUARTERLY  OFFICIAL  MEETINGS. 
As  to  "  Circuit  Quarterly  Meetings  nominating  their  own 
officials,"  I  am  free  to  admit  that  leading  influences  in  the  older 
Methodist  bodies  have  pushed  the  claim  of  pastoral  nomination  so  far 
and  with  a  tenacity  that  has  rather  impaired  pastoral  influence,  while 
it  was  hoped  to  add  to  pastoral  authority.  But  then,  both  the  clergy 
and  the  laity  of  the  Church  should  be  represented  in  these  official 
appointments.  And  this  is  the  ground  for  pastoral  nomination  :  its 
advocates  say,  not  without  show  of  propriety,  "  I  nominate,  you 
elect."  By  this  mutual  veto  on  each  other,  they  must  be  forced  to 
accord  in  the  end.  It  will  not  do  to  say,  "  The  ministers  may  vote  in 
the  Quarterly  or  Circuit  Meeting  as  well  as  the  lay  officials  ; "  yes,  but 
being  outnumbered  ten  to  one,  they  are  sure  to  be  out-voted.  I  think 
the  principle  of  this  joint  action,  or  mutual  veto,  is  correct,  but  we 
have  unfortunately  reversed  the  Scriptural  order :  the  Apostles  said 
(Acts  vi,  3,)  "  Look  ye  out  among  you  honest  men,  of  good  report,  and 


[    6    ] 

full  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  wisdom,  whom  we  may  appoint!'  Our 
Discipline  should  first  fix  the  standard  of  qualification,  then  let  the  laity 
choose  men  corresponding  with  this  description,  and  let  the  pastorate 
have  the  right  of  finally  authorizing,  or  vetoing,  if  they  have  cause  to 
believe  an  individual  unworthy ;  but,  of  course,  at  the  same  time  being 
responsible  as  they  are  in  all  other  respects  to  the  judiciary  of  the  Church. 
I  hold  some  peculiar  opinions  myself  about  the  powers  of  these 
local  or  circuit  courts,  and  the  way  they  have  exercised  their  powers  in 
times  past.  Let  the  stickler  for  lay-suffrage  remember  that  those 
quarterly  meeting  elections  are  no  election  by  the  general  laity  of  the 
Church,  but  is  the  election  of  lay-officials  of  one  another — the  doing 
of  a  close  corporation,  answerable  to  no  one,  but  often  over-topping 
the  ministry  and  rank  and  file  of  the  Church  at  the  same  moment. 
Talk  of  priestly  tyranny ;  I  have  seen  more  intolerable  tyranny  enacted 
by  a  few  local  courts  that  I  could  particularize  than  all  the  ministers  I 
ever  knew.  I  believe  the  true  analogy  would  be,  let  the  whole  society 
elect  the  Stewards  who  handle  their  money  once  a  year,  and  no 
Society  "Representatives"  would  be  needed ;  let  the  pastor  appoint  the 
Leaders,  with  the  concurrence  of  their  several  classes  ;  and  let  these, 
with  the  local  preachers,  exhorters,  S.  School  Superintendents,  and 
Representatives  of  Trustee  Boards,  as  at  the  present  appointed,  con- 
stitute the  Quarterly  Official  Meeting.  The  Stewards  would  represent 
the  financial  interests  of  the  membership,  and  the  Leaders  would  be 
at  once  the  sharers  of  the  ministers'  pastoral  work  and  authority,  and 
yet  the  representatives  of  their  several  classes  as  well. 

METHOD  FOR  CALLING  AN  ARBITRARY  CHAIRMAN  TO  ACCOUNT. 

*I  think  that  what  the  demanders  for  electing  the  chairmen  of 
Church-meetings  seek  to  prevent  is  the  right  of  a  clerical  chairman  to 
refuse  putting  a  vote,  or  his  adjourning  a  meeting  at  his  own  will. 
There  is  no  doubt  that  some  tyrannical  things  have  been  done  by 
arbitrary  men,  (and  all  the  enactments  in  the  world  will  not  prevent 
some  men  being  arbitrary  when  they  get  into  office — it  is  their  nature) 
especially  when  goaded  on  by  dangerous  and  turbulent  levellers. 
These  two  extremes  create  all  the  trouble  ;  but  their  conduct  on  both 
sides  works  the  cure  of  the  mischief :  people  get  weary  of  it  and  put  it 
down.  Now  this  power  of  a  chairman  complained  of  is  practically 
possessed  by  the  chairmen  of  all  bodies  ;  but  both  theirs  and  ours  are 
amenable  for  their  acts,  and  they  ought  to  be.  If  a  chairman  of  a 
meeting  sees  that  a  resolution  is  unconstitutional,  he  should  refuse  to 
put  it  ;  but  if  his  ruling  is  reported  to  be  in  conflict  with  the  rights  of 
the  laity,  there  should  be  a  court  for  trying  the  question,  in  which  the 
laity  should  compose  a  moiety  of  the  members.  If  a  chairman  refuse 
to  put  a  motion  which  conflicts  with  connexional  authority  and  unity, 
he  deserves  respect  and  commendation  ;  but  if  he  does  it  barely  out 
of  stupid  adherence  to  his  own  preferences  in  matters  unessential,  he 
deserves  to  be  arraigned  and  deprived  of  his  office. 

CONCESSIONS   TO  THE   EPISCOPALS. 

The  preferences  and  wishes  of  the  Episcopal  type  of  Methodism 
deserve  to  be  considered  in  a  plan  for  unification,  and  the  introduction 
of  some  of  its  characteristics  would  be  not  a  concession  merely,  but 
real  elements  of  strength,  energy,  and  usefulness. 


L     7     J 

THE  EPISCOPAL  OFFICE. 
First,  thefi,  as  to  the  Episcopal  office  itself:  The  change  in  the 
Original  Canada  Conference  from  a  permanent  Episcopacy  to  that  of 
an  annual  Presidency  arose  from  no  dissatisfaction  with  the  Episco- 
pacy, but  on  the  principle  of  compromise  for  peace  sake,  the  same 
^hich  is  now  being  urged.  All  that  remain  of  the  ministers  and 
members  who  were  connected  with  the  Church  before  1832,  have  no 
prejudice,  but  pleasant  memories  of  that  form  of  Methodism.  It  is 
true,  there  is  a  large  infusion  in  the  present  "  Methodist  Church  of 
Canada"  who  either  came  from  non-Episcopal  Methodist  bodies  in 
England  since  1832,  or  were  brought  into  the  Church  during  this 
period,  and  all  of  those  bodies  of  that  type  in  this  country,  contracting 
parties  to  the  Union,  can  not  be  expected  to  have  any  proclivities  for 
Episcopacy,  and  may  even  have  prejudices  against  it,  whose  prefer- 
ences will  require  concession.  Besides,  the  views  of  the  Eastern 
Conferences  deserve  to  be  considered,  which  have  not  been  trained  in 
notions  at  all  leading  to  Episcopacy.  Yet  even  these,  I  would  venture 
to  say,  if  they  went  to  reside  in  the  neighboring  republic,  would 
feel  no  scruples  in  uniting  with  the  prominent  Methodist  body  in  that 
country  because  of  its  Episcopacy. 

GENERAL  SUPERINTENDENTS. 

But  even  supposing  our  Episcopal  friends  will  have  to  surrender 
something  for  union  in  that  particular,  the  essentials  of  Episcopacy 
may  be  preserved  and  a  real  element  of  good  secured.  The  very 
short  experiment  in  the  newly-united  body  of  a  President  of  General 
Conference,  without  any  general  supervision  of  an  authoritative  kind, 
should  have  convinced  us  that  the  contrivance  is  an  anomily  and  an 
instance  of  connexional  weakness  and  incompleteness.  A  General 
Superintendency,  presiding  in  the  Annual  Conferences,  would  give  a 
homogeneity,  a  unity,  and  an  energy  to  the  united  body,  which  we 
need  not  expect  to  have  in  our  present  disjointed  mode  of  operation. 
But  the  General  Superintendency  may  be  secured  without  the  form  of 
a  separate  ordination,  or  a  life-long  incumbency  of  office.  An  election 
from  General  Conference  to  General  Conference,  or  for  the  space  of 
four  years,  provided  successful  administrators  were  eligible  to  re- 
election, would  secure  all  the  benefits  of  oversight,  without  the  danger 
of  confounding  an  office  with  an  order.  You  could  keep  the  efficient, 
or  get  rid  of  the  inefficient,  which  you  cannot  do  with  a  life-long 
Episcopacy.  If  our  Episcopal  brethren  will  yield  the  consecration, 
which  is  absurd  in  a  mere  presbyterial  overseer,  we  shall  be  able,  I 
hope,  to  secure  the  General  Superintendency  in  the  united  body. 

A  MODIFIED  PRESIDING  ELDERSHIP. 
If  we  have  travelling  General  Overseers,  we  may  get  rid  of  the 
expense  of  Presiding  Elders,  or  travelling  Chairmen — unless  in  the 
case  of  missionary  ground,  where  I  would  have  the  Annual  Confer- 
ences empowered  to  relieve  the  chairmen  of  districts  from  the  care  of 
particular  charges,  and  to  instruct  them  to  travel  constantly  through- 
put their  respective  districts ;  in  which  case,  they  might  be  called 
Presiding  Elders,: — indeed,  in  either  case,  in  my  humble  opinion,  it  is 
a  more  expressive  name  than  chairman. 


THE  DIACONATE,  OR  HALF-ORDINATION. 

The  restoration  of  the  diaconate,  or  the  giving  of  a  probationer 
the  half-ordination,  empowering  him  to  baptize  and  marry,  and  to  assist 
the  elder  at  the  sacisament,  at  the  end  of  two  years  well  endured  pro- 
bation, with  a  seat  in  the  Annual  Conference,  would,  while  it  would 
seem  like  a  concession  to  our  Episcopal  brethren,  be  a  valuable 
administrative  arrangement  in  itself,  for  which  I  could  furnish  some- 
thing like  Wesleyan  precedents  and  many  reasons  for  its  probable 
usefulness. 

A  MERE  OUTLINE. 
Now  all  these  proposals  could  be  amplified,  illustrated  and  argued 
or  defended  at  much  greater  length,  if  I  did  not  think  that  a  mere  out- 
line exhibition  of  my  plan,  besides  being  simplest,  is  best  at  this  stage 
of  proceedings.  When  I  find  any  part  to  be  misunderstood  or 
challenged,  it  will  be  time  enough  to  explain  or  defend. 

COMPROMISES  ABOUT   EQUAL. 

According  to  the  scheme  which  I  have  sketched  above  there 
would  be  concession  and  compromise  about  equally  exercised  on  all 
sides  :  the  present  Methodist  Church  of  Canada  would  be  conceding 
lay-co-operation  to  a  much  greater  extent  than  now  in  the  District 
Meeting,  and  the  same  in  the  Annual  Conference  in  lieu  of  its  present 
mixed-committee  system  ;  the  Primitive  Methodists  would  he  giving 
up  one-half  of  their  lay-delegates  ;  and  all  those  bodies  which  have 
full  lay-delegation  at  present  would  be  surrendering  several  things  to 
pastoral  authority  and  ministerial  prerogative  which  ministers  do  not 
enjoy  among  them  now.  I  do  not  say  anything  about  our  Episcopal 
brethren  surrendering  the  matter  of  lay-delegation  in  the  Annual  as 
well  as  General  Conference,  for  they  have  it  under  consideration  ;  but 
our  brethren  of  the  Evangelical  Association,  if  they  came  into  the 
measure,  would  be  surrendering  that  which  they  have  not  yet  conceded 
to  the  laity — a  representation  in  Conference  ;  and  the  Episcopal 
Methodists  would  be  surrendering  their  Bishops,  proper,  for  General 
Superintendents,  elected  for  a  term  of  four  years  ;  and  they  would  be 
giving  up  their  travelling  Presiding  Elders,  unless  in  rare  cases,  as  a 
temporary  expedient  for  supervising  the  newer  parts  of  the  work,  more 
likely  to  be  supplied  with  a  younger  and  less  experienced  ministry. 
The  diaconate,  perhaps,  might  not  be  much  cared  for  one  way  or 
another  on  any  side  ;  but  all  the  other  bodies  besides  themselves 
would  be  adopting  what  they  have  not  been  much — or  lately — used 
to,  a  General  Supervision  instead  of  an  Annual  and  Local  Presidency. 


*)(.*  If  any  considerable  number  of  Methodists  in  any  locality, 
upon  the  perusal  of  it,  approve  of  this  scheme,  let  them  call  an 
unofficial  meeting  and  express  their  approval.  This  might  be  done  in 
sections,  by  those  of  the  several  bodies  apart ;  or  done  by  a  mass 
meeting  of  all  sorts  of  Methodists  together.  This  will  give  impetus 
to  the  union  movement,  and  show  the  state  of  public  opinion.